Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Fakta

This fascinating look at innovations past and present—and our sometimes mistaken beliefs about them—“puts technological change into historical perspective” (Henry Petroski, author of The Evolution of Useful Things). Everyone knows that today’s rate of technological change is unprecedented. With breakthroughs from the Internet to cell phones to digital music and pictures, everyone knows that the social impact of technology has never been as profound or overwhelming. But how much is truth and how much is hype? Future Hype surveys the past few hundred years to show that many of the technologies we now take for granted transformed society in far more dramatic ways than more recent developments so often touted as unparalleled and historic. In this thoughtful book, Bob Seidensticker exposes the hidden costs of technology—and helps both consumers and businesses take a shrewder position when the next “essential” innovation is trotted out.

© 2006 Berrett-Koehler Publishers (E-bog): 9781609943479

Release date

E-bog: 9. april 2006

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog: Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century Harry Collins
  2. Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life Alexis McCrossen
  3. Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine Angela N. H. Creager
  4. The American Robot: A Cultural History Dustin A. Abnet
  5. Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature Ira Flatow
  6. Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction Hallam Stevens
  7. Debating Darwin Michael Ruse
  8. Gravity's Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first Century Harry Collins
  9. Relentless Evolution John N. Thompson
  10. The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book Volume 5: 200 Pages of Ideas The Makers of The MagPi magazine
  11. Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown Michael Shermer
  12. Strange Science: Oddball Inventions, Disastrous Discoveries, Eccentric Scientists, and Earth-Shattering Eurekas Editors of Portable Press
  13. The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America Michael Rossi
  14. The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World Rosalind Williams
  15. Engineering Eden: A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks Jordan Fisher Smith
  16. Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease Jon Palfreman
  17. How Math Explains the World: A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics James D. Stein
  18. The Bomb: A New History Steven M. Younger
  19. Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology Mark V. Barrow
  20. Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious Jacques Bouveresse
  21. Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System Ivars Peterson
  22. The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity Alan Wolfe
  23. Transaction Man: Traders, Disrupters, and the Dismantling of Middle-Class America Nicholas Lemann
  24. Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil Paul W. Kahn
  25. The Cold War and After: Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics Richard Saull
  26. The Birth of Territory Stuart Elden
  27. Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World James MacGregor Burns
  28. Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Khamenei William R. Polk
  29. The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome J. G. Manning
  30. Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country Joe Queenan
  31. All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s Robert O. Self
  32. Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve Lars-Erik Cederman
  33. The Best "Worst President": What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama Mark Hannah
  34. The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World Daniel Chirot
  35. This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent Daegan Miller
  36. Colonel Sanders and the American Dream Josh Ozersky
  37. Proof: The Science of Booze Adam Rogers
  38. 5 Cities that Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, & New York Shaped Global History Douglas Wilson
  39. The World's Emergency Room: The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers Michael VanRooyen
  40. The Philosophy Scare: The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War John McCumber
  41. Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism Wai Chee Dimock
  42. The Pox: The Life and Near Death of a Very Social Disease Kevin Brown
  43. A Force for Nature: The Story of NRDC and the Fight to Save Our Planet George Black
  44. Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival Wai Chee Dimock
  45. The Nonconformist Revolution: Religious Dissent, Innovation and Rebellion Amanda J Thomas
  46. From War to Peace: The Conversion of Naval Vessels After Two World Wars Nick Robins

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet