Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western TechnologyPrinceton University Press, 2012 M09 17 - 360 páginas Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature. The result is nothing less than a sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Rare in antiquity, the bursts of innovations that mark the advance of technology have gradually accelerated and now have become an almost continuous feature of our culture. Repeatedly shifting in direction, this path has been shaped by a host of interacting social, cultural, and scientific forces rather than any deterministic logic. Thus future technological developments, Adams maintains, are predictable only over the very short term. |
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... United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adams, Robert McCormick, 1926– Paths of fire: an anthropologist's inquiry into Western technology ...
... United States Succeeds to Industrial Leadership 3 The Competitive Global System 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. New Paths: Technological Change in a Borderless World Notes References Cited Index ix xi 36 69 104 138 173 212 253 279 301 327 ...
... United States, has been a consistent aim to design new technologies that would not only meet existing needs or demands but would create and satisfy previously unrecognized ones. New technologies converge with modernity in embodying a ...
... United States), patents would automatically become the property of the husband. It is thus not surprising that women are credited with only about 1 percent of patents that were awarded during the nineteenth century. Since then it has ...
... illustrated in the successive rates of growth and replacement of canal systems, railroads, highways, and finally the airline share of total intercity route mileage in the United States. Typically these follow almost identical CHAPTER 1 26.
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3 Technology and the New European Society | 69 |
4 England as the Workshop of the World | 104 |
The American System Emerges | 138 |
6 The United States Succeeds to Industrial Leadership | 173 |
7 The Competitive Global System | 212 |
Technological Change in a Borderless World | 253 |
Notes | 279 |
References Cited | 301 |
Index | 327 |
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Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology Robert M. Adams Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry Into Western Technology Robert McCormick Adams Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |