The nature of technology : what it is and how it evolves /
- 1st ed.
- New York : Free Press, 2011.
- v, 246 pages ;
Originally published in hardcover by Free Press in 2009.
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?.
The author offers his theory of technology's origins and evolution and discusses how technology structures human lives.