Every American an Innovator
How Innovation Became a Way of Life
$86.74
- Paperback
330 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2025
Summary
A landmark cultural history that reveals how the relentless pursuit of innovation has transformed our society, our institutions, and our inner selves.
For half a century, innovation served as a universal good in an age of fracture. That consensus is cracking. While the imperative to innovate for a better future continues to fuel systemic change around the world, critics now assail innovation culture as an engine of inequality or accuse its do-gooders of woke groupthink. What happened?…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262550734 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262550733 |
| Author: | Matthew Wisnioski |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 330 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series |
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Critics Review
“Matthew Wisnioski’s new book Every American an Innovator explains how innovation became not merely a corporate buzzword but the ‘natural expression of the spirit of our time.’”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Wisnioski brings to light a series of fascinating half-forgotten mid-century thinkers who created an innovation movement.”
—Milken Review
About The Author
Matthew Wisnioski
Matthew Wisnioski is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America and coeditor of Does America Need More Innovators? (both MIT Press).
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