The Nature of Technology: What it is and howit evolves

The Nature of Technology will change the way you think about this fundamental subject forever. W. Brian Arthur's many years of thinking and writing about technology have culminated in a unique understanding of his subject. Here he examines the nature of technology itself: what is it and how doe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: W Brian Arthur
Format: Printed Book
Published: Great Britain Allen Lane 2009
Subjects:
Technology > Philosophy. Technology > Economic aspects. Technology > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Questions
  • Combination and structure
  • Phenomena
  • Domains, or worlds entered for what can be accomplished there
  • Engineering and its solutions
  • The origin of technologies
  • Structural deepening
  • Revolutions and redomainings
  • The mechanisms of evolution
  • The economy evolving as its technologies evolve
  • Where do we stand with this creation of ours?

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