Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

Misa, Thomas J.

ISBN 10: 1421401533 / ISBN 13: 9781421401539

Editore: The Johns Hopkins University Pre, 2011

Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized. Codice articolo M1421401533Z3

Riassunto:

<p>Historian Thomas J. Misa’s sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this compelling work evaluates what Misa calls "the question of technology."</p><p>Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability. A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, <i>Leonardo to the Internet</i> frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world</p>

Informazioni sull'autore: <p><b>Thomas J. Misa</b> is director of the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. His books include <i>Managing Technology in Society</i>; <i>Modernity and Technology;</i> <i>Urban Machinery, Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing; and the award-winning A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865–1925</i>, the last also published by Johns Hopkins.</p>

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Titolo: Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and ...
Casa editrice: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Good
Edizione: seconda edizione