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发表于2024-11-22
The Nature of Technology pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
"More than any thing else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being," says W. Brian Arthur. Yet, until now the major questions of technology have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from -- how exactly does invention work? What constitutes innovation, and how is it achieved? Why are certain regions -- Cambridge, England, in the 1920s and Silicon Valley today -- hotbeds of innovation, while others languish? Does technology, like biological life, evolve? How do new industries, and the economy itself, emerge from technologies? In this groundbreaking work, pioneering technology thinker and economist W. Brian Arthur sets forth a boldly original way of thinking about technology that gives answers to these questions. The Nature of Technology is an elegant and powerful theory of technology's origins and evolution. It achieves for the progress of technology what Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for scientific progress. Arthur explains how transformative new technologies arise and how innovation really works. Conventional thinking ascribes the invention of technologies to "thinking outside the box," or vaguely to genius or creativity, but Arthur shows that such explanations are inadequate. Rather, technologies are put together from pieces -- themselves technologies -- that already exist. Technologies therefore share common ancestries and combine, morph, and combine again to create further technologies. Technology evolves much as a coral reef builds itself from activities of small organisms -- it creates itself from itself; all technologies are descended from earlier technologies. Drawing on a wealth of examples, from historical inventions to the high-tech wonders of today, and writing in wonder fully engaging and clear prose, Arthur takes us on a mind-opening journey that will change the way we think about technology and how it structures our lives.
布萊恩•阿瑟(Brian Arthur)
復雜性科學的重要奠基人。擁有加州大學伯剋利分校經濟學博士學位,37 歲就成為斯坦福大學最年輕的經濟學教授。
聖塔菲研究所元老級人物。投身於復雜性科學領域研究,在聖塔菲研究所“科學委員會”任職時間長達18 年,在“理事會”任職10 年。
研究正反饋機製的先驅,以“收益遞增規律”為基礎形成瞭自己的新經濟思想。
榮獲復雜性科學領域的首屆拉格朗日奬。
1990 年榮獲熊彼特奬。
This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bore-ology”.
評分這本書Amazon上很多人給瞭四星,我想可能理工科同學看起來更有感覺吧。對於我來說,那些例子連篇的專業單詞暫且不論,即使是IDEA,也好像有點剖析得過於細緻瞭點,像做外科手術一樣把科技肢解開,然後呢?然後說科技是建立在之前技術的基礎上的……當然不可否認,作者很賣力地很詳細地去解釋他的觀點,這點還是很considerate,但是對於一個彆人很好理解的點,有的時候也許不需要這麼長篇幅來作解吧。當然,也可能是我太淺薄瞭,沒有讀懂其中的精華所在。
評分This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bore-ology”.
評分This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bore-ology”.
評分This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bore-ology”.
如果我们从电脑桌前站起来看看我们居住的房子,会发现一个让你大吃一惊的事实,那就是,在这座房子里,那些自行其是在工作着的机器的数量已经远远大于静悄悄的家具。从体积巨大的冰箱、空调,到小小的手机、电动牙刷。而且,如果让你在这中间舍弃任何一样,你都会觉得生活变得...
評分我刚刚在想,为什么我要说阿瑟夸夸其谈、哗众取宠呢?即使他啰里八嗦就说了一个核心观点,然后又东拉西扯做了一些不准确的类比和扩展,也没有必要这么刻薄人家呀。等我想要说,他的核心观点是“技术是模块化构成”之后,然后说他的其他一些似是而非的观点的时候我自己才明白过...
評分1.花了小30美刀买了本eBOOK,结果有DRM和我的误操作,到现在也没有重新打开过 2.没发,只好花了2小时扫描了这本书去交差,结果被人告知扫出来是要我自己读的。。。 郁闷啊。
評分 評分Arthur sums up the logic technologies share in common in this part: “each shares a principle and has a central assembly… plus other assemblies hung off this to make this workable and regulate its functions. Each of this assembly is itself a technology, an...
The Nature of Technology pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024