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Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
Engelsk Paperback
Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
Engelsk Paperback

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Underlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is the quest for innovation, the contributors to this volume argue. The seemingly insatiable demand for novelty coincides with the rise of modern science and the onset of modernity in Western societies. Never before has the Baconian dream been so close to becoming reality: wrapped into a globalizing capitalism that seeks ever expanding markets for new products, artifacts and designs and new processes that lead to gains in efficiency, productivity and profit. However, approaching these developments through a wider historical and cultural perspectives, means to raise questions about the plurality of cultures, the interaction between "hardware" and "software" and about the nature of the interfaces where technology meets with economic, social, legal, historical constraints and opportunities. The authors come to the conclusion that inside a seemingly homogenous package and a seemingly universal quest for innovation many differences remain.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9781845451172
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1845451171
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 feb 2006
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Berghahn Books
Oplagsdato:
1 feb 2006
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge