LEADER 03461nam 22005655 450 001 9910863131703321 005 20240724115724.0 010 $a9789811545924 010 $a9811545928 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-15-4592-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011513674 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6381140 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-15-4592-4 035 $a(Perlego)3481860 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011513674 100 $a20201017d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCulture's Engine $eInside Science and Technology /$fby William Gosling 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (X, 260 p. 1 illus.) 311 08$a9789811545917 311 08$a981154591X 327 $a1. 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 -- 12. Deep design -- 13. A hazardous business -- 14. Will anyone want it? -- 15. Failure foreseen -- 16. Can machines think? -- 17. Lady Lovelace's revenge -- 18. The dark side -- 19. Be careful what you wish for -- 20. Past, present, future -- 21. Technology and dreaming. 330 $a'With sensitivity and detailed illustrations, ranging from the prehistoric to the current, William Gosling explores, in a unified way, the many and subtle aspects in which technology emerges from and drives our culture.' -Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol, UK 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. William Gosling is a British electrical engineer, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath, and pioneer of system design in electrical engineering. 606 $aScience$xSocial aspects 606 $aCulture 606 $aEthnology 606 $aScience and Technology Studies 606 $aSociology of Culture 606 $aSociocultural Anthropology 615 0$aScience$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 14$aScience and Technology Studies. 615 24$aSociology of Culture. 615 24$aSociocultural Anthropology. 676 $a303.483 700 $aGosling$b William$026633 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910863131703321 996 $aCulture's engine$92519367 997 $aUNINA