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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: evolution of technology
  title info: title
  name:
    name part: Basalla, George
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: 1988
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  physical description:
    form: print
  abstract: Presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based on recent scholarship in the history of technology and on relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. Challenges the popular notion that technological advances arise from the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions that owe little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's argument is shaped by analogies drawn selectively from the theory of organic evolution, and not from the theory and practice of political revolution. Three themes appear, with variations, throughout the study. The first is diversity: an acknowledgment of the vast numbers of different kinds of made things (artifacts) that long have been available to humanity. The second theme is necessity: the mistaken belief that humans are driven to invent new artifacts in order to meet basic biological needs such as food, shelter, and defense. And the third theme is technological evolution: an organic analogy that explains both the emergence of the novel artifacts and their subsequent selection by society for incorporation into its material life without invoking either biological necessity or technological process.
  note: George Basalla
  subject:
    topic: Technology,Technology,Công nghệ,Công nghệ
  subject:
    topic: History,Philosophy,Lịch sử,Triết học
  classification: 609
  classification: B297
  record info:
    record creation date: 210402
    record identifier: CTU_218941