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"A fascinating history of innovation that manages to be sweeping without becoming abstract, rigorous without seeming dry, and urgent without resorting to hype [...] a narrative history that reads like a sequence of interlinked stories: surprisingly engaging tales of inventors in workshops, artisans displaced by machines, cities growing rapidly, fortunes rising and falling. Technical detail is present, of course, but always in service of the drama of real life." --Independent Book Review (independentbookreview.com)
From Steam to Silicon offers narrative histories of five great technological revolutions—the steam engine, electricity, digital computers, the internet, and artificial intelligence—tracing how each developed and transformed society.
The book is a work of narrative synthesis, drawing together technical histories, biographies, and contemporary accounts to follow how successive general-purpose technologies move from isolated experiments to world-shaping infrastructure. By placing these revolutions side by side, it compresses decades of specialized history into a single comparative arc, making visible patterns that are often hidden when each era is studied in isolation.
Blending vivid storytelling with careful research, the book follows inventors, engineers, entrepreneurs, and institutions as they grappled with new machines whose ultimate impact was far from obvious at the time. The story unfolds through vivid narrative vignettes from the lives of inventors, engineers, and financiers—including James Watt, Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, J.P. Morgan, Gordon Moore, Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen, Frank Rosenblatt, Yann LeCun and many more.
Written for general readers, technologists, and history enthusiasts, From Steam to Silicon offers a coherent framework for understanding how transformative technologies actually spread—through people, markets, and time—rather than how they are remembered after the fact.
Additional formats and information are available at fromsteamtosilicon.com.
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From Steam to Silicon: The Development and Diffusion of General-Purpose Technologies
Da: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Codice articolo ACI4K3B4D8-11-1
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