Beyond engineering : how society shapes technology /

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Every now and then a book comes along with the power to reshape completely how people think about a subject, to teach them to see it in a way that is novel yet simultaneously so natural that they wonder how they ever could have missed it. Beyond Engineering by Robert Pool is such a book. The traditi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pool, Robert, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Colección:Sloan technology series.
Temas:
Technology.
Technological innovations.
Nuclear energy.
Technology
Nuclear Energy
Technologie.
Innovations.
Énergie nucléaire.
nuclear power.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Inventions.
SCIENCE > Applied Sciences.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Reference.
Nuclear energy
Technological innovations
Technik
Geschichte
Technischer Fortschritt
Techniksoziologie
Kernenergie
Technikbewertung
Technische ontwikkeling.
Sociale processen.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Understanding Technology
  • 1. History and Momentum
  • 2. The Power of Ideas
  • 3. Business
  • 4. Complexity
  • 5. Choices
  • 6. Risk
  • 7. Control
  • 8. Managing the Faustian Bargain
  • 9. Technical Fixes, Technological Solutions.

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