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Technology, ethics and culture
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ISBN: 0762304146 Year: 1998 Volume: 17 Publisher: Greenwich ; London J'ai press

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La civilisation vidéo-chrétienne
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ISBN: 2725613833 Year: 1990 Volume: vol *2 Publisher: Paris Atelier Alpha bleue Retz

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Technology's school : the challenge to philosophy
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ISBN: 1559389567 Year: 1995 Volume: 3 Publisher: Greenwich ; London Jai Press

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Shaping world history : breakthroughs in ecology, technology, science, and politics
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ISBN: 0765600625 0765600617 Year: 1997 Volume: *1 Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. London New York M.E. Sharpe

Culture + technology : a primer
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ISBN: 0820450073 Year: 2005

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Les philosophes et les machines 1400-1700
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ISBN: 213047568X 9782130475682 Year: 1996 Volume: *2 Publisher: Paris: PUF,

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C'est mécanique. Le philosophe italien Paolo Rossi démontre que le progrès scientifique n'est pas pure affaire d'intellectuels, mais plutôt création de mécaniciens.

Paths of fire : an anthropologist's inquiry into Western technology
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ISBN: 0691026343 9786612753206 140082222X 1282753207 1400810817 9781400810819 9780691026343 140081491X 1400800021 9781400814916 9781282753204 9781400822225 Year: 1996 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature. The result is nothing less than a sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Rare in antiquity, the bursts of innovations that mark the advance of technology have gradually accelerated and now have become an almost continuous feature of our culture. Repeatedly shifting in direction, this path has been shaped by a host of interacting social, cultural, and scientific forces rather than any deterministic logic. Thus future technological developments, Adams maintains, are predictable only over the very short term. Adams's account highlights Britain and the United States from early modern times onward. Locating the roots of the Industrial Revolution in British economic and social institutions, he goes on to consider the new forms of enterprise in which it was embodied and its loss of momentum in the later nineteenth century. He then turns to the early United States, whose path toward industrialization initially involved considerable "technology transfer" from Britain. Propelled by the advent of mass production, world industrial leadership passed to the United States around the end of the nineteenth century. Government-supported research and development, guided partly by military interests, helped secure this leadership. Today, as Adams shows, we find ourselves in a profoundly changed era. The United States has led the way to a strikingly new multinational pattern of opportunity and risk, where technological primacy can no longer be credited to any single nation. This recent trend places even more responsibility on the state to establish policies that will keep markets open for its companies and make its industries more competitive. Adams concludes with an argument for active government support of science and technology research that should be read by anyone interested in America's ability to compete globally.


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Learning from things : method and theory of material cultur studies
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ISBN: 1560986077 Year: 1995 Publisher: Washington, DC Smithsonian Institution Press

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