Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology (Sloan Technology)

by RobertPool (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1997

  $77.13

  Part of the Sloan Foundation Technology Book series, this book explores the forces that drive technological development along the specific paths that it takes, using the nuclear power industry as a recurrent case-study example, but drawing in other technologies, such as personal computers and software, and electrical power and space flight.