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Author(s): William Gosling

ISBN(s): 9789811545917, 981154591X

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 2.38 MB

Year: 2020

Language: English

SKU: EB-12074586 Category: Religion & Spirituality - Religious Studies Tags: Culture’s Engine, Inside Science, William Gosling

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Culture’s Engine: Inside Science and Technology 1st Edition William Gosling- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9789811545917,981154591X,9789811545924, 9811545928

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ISBN 10: 9811545928
ISBN 13: 9789811545924
Author: William Gosling

Culture’s Engine offers an insightful and penetrating analysis of the enduring relationship between technology and society. William Gosling explores in absorbing historical detail how humans have experienced change through a sequence of technological revolutions, each giving rise to new social organisation, which in turn influences the shape and timing of the next such revolution. Gosling argues that it is through this dialogue that successful technology sets the direction and pace of all cultural evolution. The state of technology at any time is the major influence on the world, and not just the material world. This book then is not a history of technology, still less of science. It fundamentally questions how technology and social forces interact, leading to these successive revolutions and their outcomes.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Odd Couple

3. Why Are Humans Different?

4. Three Flavours of Technology

5. Subtle Subversives

6. The Active Elements Appear

7. Drivers of Technology

8. Technology’s Other Half

9. Talk the Talk

10. Patterns of Innovation

11. Invention Push and Market Pull