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The nature of technology : what it is and how it evolves / /W. Brian Arthur

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Free Press, 2009Description: 246 s. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781846140174
  • 184614017X
  • 9781416544050
  • 1416544054
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 601 22
LOC classification:
  • T14 .A724 2009
Other classification:
  • Dfb
  • P:oa
Online resources:
Contents:
Questions -- Combination and structure -- Phenomena -- Domains, or worlds entered for what can be accomplished there -- Engineering and its solutions -- The origin of technologies -- Structural deepening -- Revolutions and redomainings -- The mechanisms of evolution -- The economy evolving as its technologies evolve -- Where do we stand with this creation of ours?.
Summary: Leading scientific theorist Arthur puts forth the first complete theory of the origins and evolution of technology, in a major work that achieves for the invention of new technologies what Darwin's theory had achieved for the emergence of new species.
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Questions -- Combination and structure -- Phenomena -- Domains, or worlds entered for what can be accomplished there -- Engineering and its solutions -- The origin of technologies -- Structural deepening -- Revolutions and redomainings -- The mechanisms of evolution -- The economy evolving as its technologies evolve -- Where do we stand with this creation of ours?.

Leading scientific theorist Arthur puts forth the first complete theory of the origins and evolution of technology, in a major work that achieves for the invention of new technologies what Darwin's theory had achieved for the emergence of new species.

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