Men Machines And Modern Times
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Men Machines And Modern Times 50th Anniversary Edition
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Author : Elting E. Morison
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2016-08-19
Men Machines And Modern Times 50th Anniversary Edition written by Elting E. Morison and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-19 with Technology & Engineering categories.
An engaging look at how we have learned to live with innovation and new technologies through history. People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel had to explain that a wheelbarrow could carry more than a person. This little book by a celebrated MIT professor—the fiftieth anniversary edition of a classic—describes how we learn to live and work with innovation. Elting Morison considers, among other things, the three stages of users' resistance to change: ignoring it; rational rebuttal; and name-calling. He recounts the illustrative anecdote of the World War II artillerymen who stood still to hold the horses despite the fact that the guns were now hitched to trucks—reassuring those of us who have trouble with a new interface or a software upgrade that we are not the first to encounter such problems. Morison offers an entertaining series of historical accounts to highlight his major theme: the nature of technological change and society's reaction to that change. He begins with resistance to innovation in the U.S. Navy following an officer's discovery of a more accurate way to fire a gun at sea; continues with thoughts about bureaucracy, paperwork, and card files; touches on rumble seats, the ghost in Hamlet, and computers; tells the strange history of a new model steamship in the 1860s; and describes the development of the Bessemer steel process. Each instance teaches a lesson about the more profound and current problem of how to organize and manage systems of ideas, energies, and machinery so that it will conform to the human dimension.
Men Machines And Modern Times
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Author : Elting Elmore Morison
language : en
Publisher: Mit Press
Release Date : 1968
Men Machines And Modern Times written by Elting Elmore Morison and has been published by Mit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a positive alternative to an Orwellian 1984, offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the nineteenth century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society by such change, and society's reaction to that change. Beginning with a remarkable illustration of resistance to innovation in the U.S. Navy following an officer's discovery of a more accurate way to fire a gun at sea, Elting Morison goes on to narrate the strange history of the new model steamship, the Wapanoag, in the 1860s. He then continues with the difficulties confronting the introduction of the pasteurization process for milk; he traces the development of the Bessemer process; and finally, he considers the computer. While the discussions are liberally sprinkled with amusing examples and anecdotes, all are related to the more profound and current problem of how to organize and manage system of ideas, energies, and machinery so that it will conform to the human dimension.
Men Machines And Modern Times
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Author : Elting E. Morison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Men Machines And Modern Times written by Elting E. Morison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
Men Machines And Modern Times
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Author : Elting Elmore Morison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Men Machines And Modern Times written by Elting Elmore Morison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Inventions categories.
People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel had to explain that a wheelbarrow could carry more than a person. This text describes how we learn to live and work with innovation. It considers, among other things, the three stages of users' resistance to change: ignoring it, rational rebuttal, and name-calling.
Making Technology Masculine
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Author : Ruth Oldenziel
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 1999
Making Technology Masculine written by Ruth Oldenziel and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A pioneering study of the relations between gender and technology.
Books For The Millions
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Author : Frank E. Comparato
language : en
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa : Stackpole Company
Release Date : 1971
Books For The Millions written by Frank E. Comparato and has been published by Harrisburg, Pa : Stackpole Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Design categories.
Machines As The Measure Of Men
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Author : Michael Adas
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1989
Machines As The Measure Of Men written by Michael Adas and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.
Man A Machine
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Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Man A Machine written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Materialism categories.
From Know How To Nowhere
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Author : Elting Elmore Morison
language : en
Publisher: Signet Book
Release Date : 1977
From Know How To Nowhere written by Elting Elmore Morison and has been published by Signet Book this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Business & Economics categories.
Examines America's technological progress from the nineteenth century to the present, discussing major personalities and scientific ideas and assessing the dangers to society of dedication to technical progress for its own sake.
Machines Like Me
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Author : Ian McEwan
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2019-04-23
Machines Like Me written by Ian McEwan and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-23 with Fiction categories.
From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—”a sharply intelligent novel of ideas” (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding. Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London—where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence—Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first generation of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he codesigns Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and smart—and a love triangle soon forms. Ian McEwan's subversive, gripping novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human—our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons, coming in September!