The Nature of Technology

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布莱恩•阿瑟(Brian Arthur)

 复杂性科学的重要奠基人。拥有加州大学伯克利分校经济学博士学位,37 岁就成为斯坦福大学最年轻的经济学教授。

 圣塔菲研究所元老级人物。投身于复杂性科学领域研究,在圣塔菲研究所“科学委员会”任职时间长达18 年,在“理事会”任职10 年。

 研究正反馈机制的先驱,以“收益递增规律”为基础形成了自己的新经济思想。

 荣获复杂性科学领域的首届拉格朗日奖。

 1990 年荣获熊彼特奖。

出版者:Free Press
作者:W. Brian Arthur
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页数:256
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出版时间:2009-8-11
价格:USD 27.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781416544050
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图书标签:
  • 科技 
  • 科学哲学 
  • 社会学 
  • 技术哲学 
  • BrianArthur 
  • 科普 
  • 英文原版 
  • 科学 
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"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.

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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...  

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科学史学家托马斯.库恩在《科学革命的结构》中论述了他关于科学的洞察,提出了著名的科学发展“范式”理论。而技术思想家阿瑟在本书中带给人们的是他对技术的本质洞察和技术如何演化的深刻见解。他给人们带来了一个全新的观察视角,在这个视角下,技术已不再是人们习以为常的零...  

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作者当然大名鼎鼎,没的说。但是: 1.内容真的一般,关于技术的进化并没有交代的令人信服; 2.比起KK的作品,想象力远不如,变现力也不好; 3.作者的的优势在技术和经济的结合之处,但缺乏描述,不知是何原因; 4.湛庐的商业化运作太过操切; 5.请来写序的清华教授其实真心不懂...  

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I will give technology three definitions that we will use throughout the book. The first and most basic one is that a technology is a means to fulfill a human purpose. For some technologies—oil refining—the purpose is explicit. For others—the computer—t...  

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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”.

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这本书Amazon上很多人给了四星,我想可能理工科同学看起来更有感觉吧。对于我来说,那些例子连篇的专业单词暂且不论,即使是IDEA,也好像有点剖析得过于细致了点,像做外科手术一样把科技肢解开,然后呢?然后说科技是建立在之前技术的基础上的……当然不可否认,作者很卖力地很详细地去解释他的观点,这点还是很considerate,但是对于一个别人很好理解的点,有的时候也许不需要这么长篇幅来作解吧。当然,也可能是我太浅薄了,没有读懂其中的精华所在。

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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”.

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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”.

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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”.

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