History of Technology Volume 6, A. Rupert Hall, Norman Smith
Автор: Basalla, George Название: Evolution of technology ISBN: 0521296811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521296816 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past.
Описание: Fully revised and expanded in a third edition boasting hundreds of new entries, this Springer encyclopedia offers exceptional scientific and geographical scope, with detailed articles on non-Western achievements in science, technology, and healthcare.
Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of "technology transfer" from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge.
In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker of them. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in Africa is not merely the product of "technology transfer" from elsewhere but the working of African knowledge. Their contributions focus on African ways of looking, meaning-making, and creating. The chapter authors see Africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge and whose strategic deployment of both endogenous and inbound things represents an African-centered notion of STI. "Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere," observes Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, the volume's editor. Western, colonialist definitions of STI are not universalizable.
The contributors discuss topics that include the trivialization of indigenous knowledge under colonialism; the creative labor of chimurenga, the transformation of everyday surroundings into military infrastructure; the role of enslaved Africans in America as innovators and synthesizers; the African ethos of "fixing"; the constitutive appropriation that makes mobile technologies African; and an African innovation strategy that builds on domestic capacities. The contributions describe an Africa that is creative, technological, and scientific, showing that African STI is the latest iteration of a long process of accumulative, multicultural knowledge production.
Contributors Geri Augusto, Shadreck Chirikure, Chux Daniels, Ron Eglash, Ellen Foster, Garrick E. Louis, D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Neda Nazemi, Toluwalogo Odumosu, Katrien Pype, Scott Remer
Автор: Coopey, Richard Название: Information Technology Policy ISBN: 0199241058 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199241057 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 26532.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Information Technology has become a key factor in industry and society in the postwar world and continues to evolve, re-shaping the local and global economy and reorienting comparative and competitive advantages. The production of IT has itself changed and shifted through a number of generations. Government policy towards IT has taken different directions at different times in different countries. The book brings together a series of country-based studies that chart the growth and effectiveness of information technology policy.
Описание: Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over a scientific, modern one, Inter-tech(s) proposes a new understanding of the relationship between France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean by exploring how various post-independence authors depict technology as a mediator between them.
Описание: Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is relevant to the topics of engineering and technology. This volume highlights both the accomplishments of the ancient societies and the remaining research problems, and stimulates further progress in the history of ancient technology.
Описание: Science, medicine, and technology have become increasingly important to the average individual in modern society. The importance of these three fields is in many ways one of the defining characteristics of modernity. Understanding their history is essential for educated individuals.
Автор: Townsend, Peter Название: The Dark Side of Technology ISBN: 0198790538 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198790532 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book is concerned with human progress and the unexpected consequences of technological advances. It examines a vast range of topics from medicine to agriculture, including electronics, communications, a global economy and a burgeoning population.
Автор: Reilly Название: Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology ISBN: 1137319666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137319661 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10760.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment electrical experiments to Victorian spectral illusions, this volume offers an original examination of the precursors of contemporary digital performance.
Автор: Nocks, Lisa Название: The ROBOT: THE LIFE STORY OF A TECHNOLOGY ISBN: 0801890713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801890710 Издательство: Johns Hopkins University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 2356.00 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: This volume includes a timeline of important events, a glossary of terms, descriptions and statistics of robot labs and companies around the world, and a helpful bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further research.
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