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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... involved how directions of research are set, sustained, and changed. Another focused on the linkages between science and society—with technology firstamong them. As such, it may be reasonable to think of this essay in some respects as a ...
... involved in decisions which either deal directly with, or are merely affected by, those products. Carried to this extent, technology may become virtually a synonym for all of the instrumental means for reconfiguring as well as ...
... involved in our own subject matter. While characterizing the movements of the deepest currents as barely perceptible until the quickening pulse of capitalism, Braudel seems to have regarded those currents as wholly impersonal ...
... or inventions, and engineering closer to innovations and accompanying applications. Separating the two, however, has inevitably involved drawing a line of division across a continuum. Hence there has been an PATHS OF FIRE 19.
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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 |