Cultures of technology and the quest for innovation / / edited by Helga Nowotny
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| Titolo: |
Cultures of technology and the quest for innovation / / edited by Helga Nowotny
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 |
| ©2006 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338/.064 |
| Soggetto topico: | Technological innovations |
| Social history - 1945- | |
| Altri autori: |
NowotnyHelga
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 00 front Nowotny; 00 intro Nowotny; 01 chap Nowotny; 02 chap Nowotny; 03 chap Nowotny; 04 chap Nowotny; 05 chap Nowotny; 06 chap Nowotny; 07 chap Nowotny; 08 chap Nowotny; 09 chap Nowotny; 10 epilogue Nowotny; 11 contributors Nowotny; 12 bibliography Nowotny; 13 index Nowotny |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cultures of technology and the quest for innovation |
| ISBN: | 1-84545-117-1 |
| 1-84545-116-3 | |
| 1-78238-964-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823209303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Making sense of history ; ; Volume 9.