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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... production and management, and on conditions of work and the required educational level of the work force.20 More recently, Giovanni Dosi and his collaborators apparently attempt to straddle the issue. While acknowledging the “coupled ...
... production, distribution, and use (e.g., the Boeing 747s) unambiguously constitutes a system. Although independently managed, the textile mills that sprang up in Lowell, Massachusetts in the early nineteenth century were consistent ...
... production and distribution, assessing and assuming risks, and providing the entrepreneurial leadership necessary for new technologies to be successfully deployed. The second direction of close and interactive ties that play a part in ...
... production, and marketing considerations as well as the rapidity and effectiveness of diffusion processes. Why is more difficult,and perhaps unanswerable except as a matter of purely subjective satisfaction. A materialist approach ...
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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 |