Books Details
Author : W. Brian Arthur Pages : 256 pages Publisher : Free Press Language : ISBN-10 :
1416544062 ISBN-13 : 9781416544067
Books Descriptions
?More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our
economy, our very way of being,? says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology?s
irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone
unanswered. Where do new technologies come from? What constitutes innovation,
and how is it achieved? Does technology, like biological life, evolve? In this
groundbreaking work, pioneering technology thinker and economist W. Brian Arthur
answers these questions and more, setting forth a boldly original way of thinking
about technology. The Nature of Technology is an elegant and powerful theory of
technology?s origins and evolution. Achieving for the development of technology
what Thomas Kuhn?s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for scientific
progress, Arthur explains how transformative new technologies arise and how
innovation really works. Drawing on a wealth of examples, from historical inventions
to the high-tech wonders of today,
