The Nature of Technology
What It Is and How It Evolves
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
12 October 2010
Summary
The first and definitive analysis of the fundamental questions about technology: what exactly is the technology we rely on? How is it changing our lives? And is this technology effectively creating itself?
In The Nature of Technology, ground-breaking economist W. Brian Arthur explores the extraordinary way in which the technology that surrounds us and allows us to live our modern lives has actually been developed. Rather than coming from a series of one-off inventions, almost…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141031637 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141031638 |
| Author: | W. Brian Arthur |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 15mm |
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A profoundly social view of innovation
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About The Author
W. Brian Arthur
W. Brian Arthur’s ideas have won him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987 and the Schumpeter Prize in Economics in 1990. He pioneered the modern study of positive feedbacks in the economy - in particular their role in magnifying small, random events. He is also one of the pioneers of the new science of complexity. He is an External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute and from 1983 to 1996 was Dean and Virginia Morrison Professor of Economics and Population Studies at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. from Berkeley in Operations Research, and has other degrees in economics, engineering and mathematics.
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