Engineering the future, understanding the past: a social history of technology

Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historica...

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Main Authors: Vleuten, Erik van der (Author), Davids, Mila 1965- (Author), Oldenziel, Ruth 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2017]
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Summary:Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintended consequences that themselves require solving
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (212 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9789048536504
DOI:10.1515/9789048536504

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