The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
In 1869, Charles Darwin published his paradigm-making On the Origin of Species, his theory of natural selection and common descent. In 2009, scientific theorist W. Brian Arthur provides the first theory of how new technologies and technology communities emerge and survive. His thesis is...
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In 1869, Charles Darwin published his paradigm-making On the Origin of Species, his theory of natural selection and common descent. In 2009, scientific theorist W. Brian Arthur provides the first theory of how new technologies and technology communities emerge and survive. His thesis is revelatory: He argues that advances occur not from individual insights but from a process akin to evolution. "Technology," he writes, "evolves by creating itself out of itself, much as a coral reef builds itself from activities of small organisms."
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781416544050 (1416544054)
Publish date: August 11th 2009
Publisher: Free Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Science,
Technology,
Popular Science,
Biology,
Economics,
Philosophy,
Evolution
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