Evolution of Technology

Name: Evolution of Technology
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ISBN: 9780521296816

ISBN-10: 0521296811

ISBN-13: 9780521296816

Edition: 1988

Authors: George Basalla, Owen Hannaway, Owen Hannaway

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Presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based on recent scholarship in the history of technology and on relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. Challenges the popular notion that technological advances arise from the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions that owe little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's argument is shaped by analogies drawn selectively from the theory of organic evolution, and not from the theory and practice of political revolution. Three themes appear, with variations, throughout the study. The first is diversity: an acknowledgment of the vast numbers of…

Book details

List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/24/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.73" wide x 8.50" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface



Diversity, necessity, and evolution



Continuity and discontinuity



Novelty: psychological and intellectual factors



Novelty: socioeconomic and cultural factors



Selection: economic and military factors



Selection: social and cultural factors



Conclusion: evolution and progress


Bibliography


Sources of questions


Index