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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... Institutions by Field Corporate R & D Expenditures for Drugs and Medicines Scientists and Engineers in R & D by Country, 1965–1989 99 111 121 165 178 179 181 183 201 6-5 223 224 224 230 230 230 233 238 238 242 Preface IT IS A ...
... institutions to submit to forces of short-term expediency that heavily diminish any accounting for outcomes. Moreover, when the bleak future arrives, what other means are there than technological ones with which to reverse the damage ...
... institutions on which modern technological society is based, and extends to the present day. Much of my earlier work was devoted to the unfolding sequence of urban life in southwestern Asia, from late prehistory to the threshold of the ...
... Institution continually supervening, my efforts were largely confinedto a progressively wider scanning of the literature and a preliminary accumulation of notes and other materials. But from that time forward, having informed the ...
... institutions, firms,and individuals—or these two nations at different periods in their history, for that matter—differ in their readiness to devote resources and creative energies to taking world technological leadership? Only a few ...
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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 |