The nature of technology: what it is and how it evolves

About The nature of technology: what it is and how it evolves

Authors Arthur, W. Brian
Date 2011
Publisher Free Press
Place New York London Toronto Sydney
ISBN 978-1-4165-4405-0 978-1-4165-4406-7
Language eng

Type: Book

Tags: General Audience

Abstract

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?