TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arthur,W.Brian
TI  - The nature of technology: what it is and how it evolves 
SN  - 9781846140174
AV  - T14 .A724 2009
U1  - 601 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Free Press
KW  - Technology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - fast
N1  - Questions -- Combination and structure -- Phenomena -- Domains, or worlds entered for what can be accomplished there -- Engineering and its solutions -- The origin of technologies -- Structural deepening -- Revolutions and redomainings -- The mechanisms of evolution -- The economy evolving as its technologies evolve -- Where do we stand with this creation of ours?
N2  - Leading scientific theorist Arthur puts forth the first complete theory of the origins and evolution of technology, in a major work that achieves for the invention of new technologies what Darwin's theory had achieved for the emergence of new species
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