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基本説明
Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy consumption, insecure information gathering, and vulnerable global shipping industry have helped foster geopolitial risks and instability.
Full Description
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." Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability. 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
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Technologies of the Court, 1450-1600
2. Techniques of Commerce, 1588-1740
3. Geographies of Industry, 1740-1851
4. Instruments of Empire, 1840-1914
5. Science and Systems, 1870-1930
6. Materials of Modernism, 1900-1950
7. The Means of Destruction, 1936-1990
8. Toward Global Culture, 1970-2001
9. Paths to Insecurity, 2001-2010
10. The Question of Technology
Notes
Notes on Sources
Index



