The Nature of Technology: What it is and how it Evolves

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Allen Lane, 2009 - Technology & Engineering - 246 pages
'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 does it evolve?

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About the author (2009)

W. Brian Arthur's ideas have won him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987 and the Schumpeter Prize in Economics in 1990. He pioneered the modern study of positive feedbacks in the economy - in particular their role in magnifying small, random events. He is also one of the pioneers of the new science of complexity. He is an External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute and from 1983 to 1996 was Dean and Virginia Morrison Professor of Economics and Population Studies at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. from Berkeley in Operations Research, and has other degrees in economics, engineering and mathematics.

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TitleThe Nature of Technology: What it is and how it Evolves
AuthorW. Brian Arthur
PublisherAllen Lane, 2009
ISBN184614017X, 9781846140174
Length246 pages
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Technology & Engineering / General
Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects
  
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