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Lädt ... The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900von David Edgerton
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book is an excellent antidote to the idea that humanity (or, in a more restricted sense, the economy) advances through innovation. While innovation plays a role, much more important is the way it's used, and the contexts in which that happens. David Edgerton demonstrates that with many examples of 20th-century inventions which failed to take hold. He also shows how a lot of new technologies that are touted as innovative are actually based on fairly old stuff. This book won't make you into a Luddite but it might make you skeptical enough of talk of innovation that people will call you one. ( ) Cité par Jean Baptiste Fressoz dans vidéo : https://youtu.be/R6USRyBsJ40 vers 28:59. Même vidéo vers 32:30, à propos d’idées fausses qui se répandent (des matières premières deviennent obsolètes et disparaitraient ; il aurait existé dans l’histoire des transitions énergétiques...), ce n’est pas que les experts sont tous ignorants mais c’est qu’à certaines périodes quelques experts diffusant ces idées fausses deviennent dominants pour des raisons politiques ) Having read the author's critique of the British military-industrial state, I knew pretty much what to expect; a polemical dismissal of the inventor as a Promethean figure and of the academy as being overrated as a contributor to technological change. Most important in this extended essay is that Edgerton calls for a history of technology based on an examination of what specific tools and processes that societies make use of, as opposed to notions of supposed progress.
"Edgerton notes that, 'The historical study of things in use, and the uses of things, matters.' (p. 212). After reading this fascinating book, we have to agree, and I would urge anyone with an interest in the history of technology to get this book. Your view of the world will never be the same." Gehört zu Verlagsreihen
From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clich#65533;d claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising our ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. He challenges us to view the history of technology in terms of what everyday people have actually used-and continue to use-rather than just sophisticated inventions. Indeed, many highly touted technologies, from the V-2 rocket to the Concorde jet, have been costly failures, while many mundane discoveries, like corrugated iron, become hugely important around the world. Edgerton reassesses the significance of such acclaimed inventions as the Pill and information technology, and underscores the continued importance of unheralded technology, debunking many notions about the implications of the "information age." A provocative history, The Shock of the Old provides an entirely new way of looking historically at the relationship between invention and innovation. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)609.04Technology General Technology History, geographic treatment, biography By PeriodKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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