Retooling : a historian confronts technological change /

A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT. When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Rosalind H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Technology > United States > History.
Technological innovations > United States > History.
Technologie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Innovations > États-Unis > Histoire.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Technological innovations
Technology
United States
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
MIT
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Living in a Technological World
  • 2. The Expansive Disintegration of Engineering
  • 3. Technology and Business
  • 4. Technology and Community
  • 5. Men and Women in a Technological World
  • 6. Coda: Living in a Historical World.

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