Engineering the future, understanding the past : a social history of technology / Erik van der Vleuten, Ruth Oldenziel, Mila Davids ; with contributions by Harry Lintsen
Mitwirkende(r): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Verlag: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright-Datum: ©2017Beschreibung: 1 Online-Ressource (212 Seiten) : IllustrationenISBN:- 9789048536504
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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.PPN: PPN: 1042463271Package identifier: Produktsigel: EBA-BACKALL | EBA-CL-SN | EBA-EBACKALL | EBA-EBKALL | EBA-ECL-SN | EBA-EEBKALL | EBA-ESSHALL | EBA-PPALL | EBA-SSHALL | GBV-deGruyter-alles | ZDB-23-DGG | ZDB-23-DGG
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Preface -- -- Introduction : Engineering For A Changing World -- -- 1. The Age Of Promise, 1815-1914 -- -- 2. The Age Of Crisis, 1914-1945 -- -- 3. The Age Of Technocracy, 1945-1970 -- -- 4. The Age Of Participation, 1970-2015 -- -- Epilogue: Engineering The Future -- -- Notes -- -- References -- -- Illustration Credits -- -- Index
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