The nature of technology
Subtitle: what it is and how it evolves
By: W. Brian Arthur
Edition: 1st Free Press paperback ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781416544067
Subjects: Social aspects; Technology; Philosophy; Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Questions; title: Combination and structure; title: Phenomena; title: Domains, or worlds entered for what can be accomplished there; title: Engineering and its solutions; title: The origin of technologies; title: Structural deepening; title: Revolutions and redomainings; title: The mechanisms of evolution; title: The economy evolving as its technologies evolve; title: Where do we stand with this creation of ours?