Now updated - A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in
society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the
relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years
reveals how technological innovations have shaped-and have been
shaped by-the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the
preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and
industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of
imperialism, modernism, and global security, this compelling work
evaluates what Misa calls "the question of technology." In this
edition, Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by drawing on
current scholarship while retaining sharply drawn portraits of
individual people, artifacts, and systems. Each chapter has been
honed to relate to contemporary concerns. Globalization, Misa
argues, looks differently considering today's virulent nationalism,
cultural chauvinism, and trade wars. A new chapter focuses on the
digital age from 1990 to 2016. The book also examines how today's
unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and
vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks
and instability and takes a look at the coronavirus pandemic from
the perspective of Wuhan, China's high-tech district. A masterful
analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other
over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that
illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our
technology-dependent world.
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