TY - BOOK AU - Arthur,W.Brian TI - The nature of technology: what it is and how it evolves SN - 9781416544067 AV - T14 .A724 2010 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Free Press KW - Technology--Social aspects KW - Technology--Economic aspects KW - Technology--Philosophy KW - Technology KW - Science N1 - 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? N2 - The author offers his theory of technology's origins and evolution and discusses how technology structures human lives ER -