The Triumph of Technology
Subtitle: The BBC Reith Lectures 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 12, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9780521861588
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; Impact of science & technology on society; Technology; Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Technology and civilization; Essays; Political Science / General; General; Social aspects
First sentence: Around 4,000 years ago, just 5 miles north of what is now the Norfolk town of Thetford, our Neolithic ancestors began what may have been the largest early industrial process in these British Isles.