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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Hauptverfasser: Vleuten, Erik van der (VerfasserIn), Oldenziel, Ruth, 1958- (VerfasserIn), Davids, Mila (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lintsen, Harry, 1949- (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048536504
9048536502
9462985405
9789462985407