The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves

Arthur, W. Brian

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1416544054 ISBN 13: 9781416544050

Casa editrice: Free Pr, 2009

A prize-winning scientific theorist presents an in-depth premise on the origins and evolution of technology that explains the sources of transformative new technologies and why they are associated with specific inventive cultural regions, in a report that explains how technologies arrive in a process akin to evolution.

Recensione:

"Brian Arthur's brilliantly original analysis of how technology develops and evolves reminds me of Euclid's Geometry -- it's clear, simple and seemingly self-evident now that a master has spent years working it out. The Nature of Technology is a seminal work, thrilling to read and rich in implications for business as well as engineering and the social sciences." -- Richard Rhodes, Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction for The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"The Nature of Technology is the most important book on technology and the economy since Schumpeter. In clear, lucid prose and with fascinating examples, Arthur describes how technology 'creates itself' in an evolutionary process that has taken our world from stone tools to iPods. A work of deep and lasting importance that deserves to be widely read -- you will not think about technology the same way again." -- Eric D. Beinhocker, author of The Origin of Wealth

"The refreshing clarity that Brian Arthur brings to the most overwhelming force in the universe will benefit anyone trying to tame technology -- critics, eager boosters, and the perplexed alike." -- Kevin Kelly, author of New Rules for the New Economy

"Hundreds of millions of dollars slosh around Silicon Valley every day based on Brian Arthur's ideas." -- John Seeley Brown, former director of PARC

"We launched Java based on Brian Arthur's ideas." -- Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google

L'autore:

W. Brian Arthur is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a visiting researcher at Xerox Parc. Formerly a professor of economics at Stanford University, he was awarded the prestigious Schumpeter Prize in economics and the inaugural Lagrange Prize in complexity science. He has been profiled in Fortune and Wired and has written for Scientific American, Science, and the Harvard Business Review. He lives in Palo Alto, California.