| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Engineering for a Changing World; Lessons from engineering history: Society, Enterprise, Users; Technology: Dream and nightmare; Engineering for a changing world; The structure of this book; 1. The Age of Promise, 1815-1914; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Society; Promises to Society: Peace and progress for all; The national promise: The infrastructure state and civil engineers; The urban promise: The Urban Machine; The global promise: International machinery and the civilizing mission; 1.3 Enterprise; Technology's promise to enterprise |
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The inventor-entrepreneurTechnology and the opportunity-seeking entrepreneur; Strategies for business organization; 1.4 Users; Technology's promises to users: "Power to you"; Innovative user-consumers: The telephone and the railway; The bicycle and the car; User-activists; User-tinkerers; 1.5 Engineers; Technology's promise to engineering; Engineering education; Engineers and social engagement; 2. The Age of Crisis, 1914-1945; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Society; Peace and war; Prosperity and decline; Liberty and enslavement; Civilization and barbarism; 2.3 Enterprise; Business and bankruptcy |
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Patent warsWorker nightmares; 2.4 Users; Access and accidents; Users and misusers; 2.5 Engineers; Hero and villain; Engineers in totalitarian regimes; A new hope; 3. The Age of Technocracy, 1945-1970; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Society; Making technology non-political: The linear model of innovation; Making politics technical: A systems approach to societal challenges; 3.3 Enterprise; The heyday of R The linear model in practice: organizational challenges; Systems approaches in business planning; 3.4 Users; Consumer appliances in the age of "projected users." |
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Projected users in the built environmentUsers and the systems approach: the car-centered city; 3.5 Engineers; Growth in influence and numbers; Theory and science; Professional independence and ethical codes; The tide turns; 4. The Age of Participation, 1970-2015; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Society; Opening up the system; Participation by protest; Participation by mediation; Participation by delegation; 4.3 Enterprise; Flipping the linear model of innovation; Commercializing research and open innovation; User-centered innovation; Corporations under social pressure; 4.4 Users |
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Energetic user-tinkerersMobility and "biketivists"; Hacktivists and other users; 4.5 Engineers; Opening up institutions; Opening up engineering curricula; Participation: Science shops and the valorization of knowledge; Epilogue: Engineering the Future; Different societal challenges; Challenges to enterprise and users; Beyond technocracy and participation; Notes; References; Illustration credits; Index; List of figures; Internet Freedom and Cyber Security; Cheering for the Railway; The Railway: A "Civilizing" Technology?; Founding a Fortune-in Chemicals; Scientific Management at Work |
| Summary |
Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintended consequences that themselves require solving |
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Engineering history |
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engineering education |
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grand challenges |
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social history of technology |
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societal transitions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Technology -- Social aspects -- History
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Technology -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oldenziel, Ruth, 1958- author.
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Davids, Mila, author.
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Lintsen, Harry, 1949- contributor.
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| ISBN |
9789048536504 |
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9048536502 |
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9462985405 |
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9789462985407 |
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