A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium (The MIT Press)
By Robert Friedel.
Description
How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer.Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement―the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way. What Friedel calls the "culture of improvement" is manifested ever...
ISBN(s)
026251401X, 9780262514019
