Knowing machines : essays on technical change

Knowing machines : essays on technical change / Donald MacKenzie.

The essays are tied together by their explorations of connections (primarily among technology, society, and knowledge) and by their general focus on modern "high" technology. They also share an emphasis on the complexity of technological formation and fixation and on the role of belief (es...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacKenzie, Donald A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
©1996
Series:Inside technology.
Subjects:
Technology > Social aspects.
Technology > Social aspects
Sozialer Wandel
Soziologie
Techniksoziologie
Technischer Fortschritt
Forschung
Kernwaffe
Technologie
Technische ontwikkeling.
Sociale aspecten.
Technique > Aspect social.
Technologie > Aspect social.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Marx and the machine
  • 3. Economic and sociological explanations of technological change
  • 4. From the luminiferous ether to the Boeing 757
  • 5. Nuclear weapons laboratories and the development of supercomputing
  • 6. The charismatic engineer (with Boelie Elzen)
  • 7. The fangs of the VIPER
  • 8. Negotiating arithmetic, constructing proof
  • 9. Computer-related accidental death
  • 10. Tacit knowledge and the uninvention of nuclear weapons.

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