Technology And The Growth Of Civilization

Author : Giancarlo Genta
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030255832
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and the Growth of Civilization written by Giancarlo Genta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans. From domesticated wheat fields to nuclear power plants and spacecraft, everything we see and interact with has in some way been changed by the presence of our species, starting from the Neolithic era so many centuries ago. This book provides a crash course on the issues and debates surrounding technology’s shifting place in our society. It covers the history of our increasingly black-box world, which some theorize will end with technology accelerating beyond our understanding. At the same time, it analyzes competing trends and theories, the lack of scientific knowledge of large sections of the population, the dogmas of pseudoscience, and the growing suspicion of science and technology, which may inevitably lead to scientific stagnation. What will the future of our civilization look like? How soon might scientific acceleration or stagnation arrive at our doorstep, and just how radically will such technological shifts change our culture? These are issues that we must address now, to insure our future goes the way we choose.

Author : Arnold Pacey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262366282
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in World Civilization, revised and expanded edition written by Arnold Pacey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a "world civilization." Case studies include "technological dialogues" between China and West Asia in the eleventh century, medieval African states and the Islamic world, and the United States and Japan post-1950. It examines railway empires through the examples of Russia and Japan and explores current synergies of innovation in energy supply and smartphone technology through African cases. The book uses the term "technological dialogue" to challenges the top-down concept of "technology transfer," showing instead that technologies are typically modified to fit local needs and conditions, often triggering further innovation. The authors trace these encounters and exchanges over a thousand years, examining changes in such technologies as agriculture, firearms, printing, electricity, and railroads. A new chapter brings the narrative into the twenty-first century, discussing technological developments including petrochemicals, aerospace, and digitalization from often unexpected global viewpoints and asking what new kind of industrial revolution is needed to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.

Author : Arnold Pacey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262660723
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in World Civilization written by Arnold Pacey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." He portrays the process as a complex dialectic by which inventions borrowed from one culture are adopted to suit another.

Author : Mary A. Vance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and Civilization written by Mary A. Vance and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen H. Cutcliffe
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and Values in American Civilization written by Stephen H. Cutcliffe and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1980 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor C. Ferkiss
Publisher : George Braziller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Technological Civilization written by Victor C. Ferkiss and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1974 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536161
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy and Civilization written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.

Author : Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199713669
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology: A World History written by Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results--how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.

Author : Melvin Kranzberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in Western Civilization: Technology in the twentieth century written by Melvin Kranzberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1967 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and well-planned account of the history of technology in Western civilization from pre-historic man to the present age of the computer.

Author : Dennis Karwatka
Publisher : Tech Directions Books & Media
ISBN 13 : 9780970339829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Civilization written by Dennis Karwatka and published by Tech Directions Books & Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publisher offers a special price for purchasing this text along with two related volumes: Connecting Civilization: the Growth of Communication and Moving Civilization; the Growth of Transportation. At a reading level appropriate for high school students, this work traces technical developments that advanced the methods used in construction, manufacturing, and machine tooling, primarily in America, during the 19th century. The 44 biographies that comprise the second half of the book are reprinted from Technology's Past by the same author, who teaches at Morehead State University. B & w photographs accompany the text. Distributed by Prakken Publications. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR