"More than any thing else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being," says W. Brian Arthur. Yet, until now the major questions of technology have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from -- how exactly does invention work? What constitutes innovation, and how is it achieved? Why are certain regions -- Cambridge, England,...
"More than any thing else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being," says W. Brian Arthur. Yet, until now the major questions of technology have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from -- how exactly does invention work? What constitutes innovation, and how is it achieved? Why are certain regions -- Cambridge, England, in the 1920s and Silicon Valley today -- hotbeds of innovation, while others languish? Does technology, like biological life, evolve? How do new industries, and the economy itself, emerge from technologies? In this groundbreaking work, pioneering technology thinker and economist W. Brian Arthur sets forth a boldly original way of thinking about technology that gives answers to these questions. The Nature of Technology is an elegant and powerful theory of technology's origins and evolution. It achieves for the progress of technology what Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for scientific progress. Arthur explains how transformative new technologies arise and how innovation really works. Conventional thinking ascribes the invention of technologies to "thinking outside the box," or vaguely to genius or creativity, but Arthur shows that such explanations are inadequate. Rather, technologies are put together from pieces -- themselves technologies -- that already exist. Technologies therefore share common ancestries and combine, morph, and combine again to create further technologies. Technology evolves much as a coral reef builds itself from activities of small organisms -- it creates itself from itself; all technologies are descended from earlier technologies. Drawing on a wealth of examples, from historical inventions to the high-tech wonders of today, and writing in wonder fully engaging and clear prose, Arthur takes us on a mind-opening journey that will change the way we think about technology and how it structures our lives.
This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bor...This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bore-ology”.(展开)
This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bor...This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bore-ology”.(展开)
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浙江人民出版社2014版
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浙江人民出版社2014版
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浙江人民出版社2014版
1 有用 容懂 2010-05-10 10:29:14
This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bor... This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bore-ology”. (展开)
0 有用 森林里的冰工厂 2022-03-20 12:23:08
Sets of language
0 有用 目送飞鸿 2020-10-31 18:44:42
这本书忍着读完，证明是浪费时间。作者认为技术由已有技术组合而成，随着技术的积累，组合可能越来越多，作为一种复杂系统，技术具有自组合和涌现的特点，自我推动进化至更为复杂的阶段。这也是圣塔菲学院研究复杂系统和自组合系统的结果，写地很散，跟啥也没说一样。
0 有用 冰湖守夜人 2021-03-22 00:28:58
碎片化论断多，支持多为一些例子，不够有力。有时反反复复说一个观点，且分布在全书的不同部分，bad writer.理论上的问题在于作者尝试将所有purposed system归结在一套规律下，但是如果一套理论能解释经济，政治，法律，商业，技术，etc.， 它就什么也不能解释。作者定位是个做computational simulation的实证社会学家，理论著述相对于他的虚拟世界程序来说，并不算非常精... 碎片化论断多，支持多为一些例子，不够有力。有时反反复复说一个观点，且分布在全书的不同部分，bad writer.理论上的问题在于作者尝试将所有purposed system归结在一套规律下，但是如果一套理论能解释经济，政治，法律，商业，技术，etc.， 它就什么也不能解释。作者定位是个做computational simulation的实证社会学家，理论著述相对于他的虚拟世界程序来说，并不算非常精彩。 (展开)
0 有用 抽象LAOYA 2022-01-23 14:13:27
1. 许久没有的阅读快感。 2. 务必读英文版的。 3. 与《The Innovator's Dilemma》和《Diffusion Of Innovation》两本书一起阅读，收获更多。《The Nature of Technology》从技术哲学角度，比较晦涩，《The Innovator's dilemma》更多的是从商业角度，解决了前者没有说明的purpose（技术的目的）；《Innova... 1. 许久没有的阅读快感。 2. 务必读英文版的。 3. 与《The Innovator's Dilemma》和《Diffusion Of Innovation》两本书一起阅读，收获更多。《The Nature of Technology》从技术哲学角度，比较晦涩，《The Innovator's dilemma》更多的是从商业角度，解决了前者没有说明的purpose（技术的目的）；《Innovator's dilemma》也有大量关于disruptive technology颠覆性技术的扩散，《Diffusion Of Innovation》则主要在于论述创新的扩散。 (展开)
0 有用 森林里的冰工厂 2022-03-20 12:23:08
Sets of language
0 有用 抽象LAOYA 2022-01-23 14:13:27
1. 许久没有的阅读快感。 2. 务必读英文版的。 3. 与《The Innovator's Dilemma》和《Diffusion Of Innovation》两本书一起阅读，收获更多。《The Nature of Technology》从技术哲学角度，比较晦涩，《The Innovator's dilemma》更多的是从商业角度，解决了前者没有说明的purpose（技术的目的）；《Innova... 1. 许久没有的阅读快感。 2. 务必读英文版的。 3. 与《The Innovator's Dilemma》和《Diffusion Of Innovation》两本书一起阅读，收获更多。《The Nature of Technology》从技术哲学角度，比较晦涩，《The Innovator's dilemma》更多的是从商业角度，解决了前者没有说明的purpose（技术的目的）；《Innovator's dilemma》也有大量关于disruptive technology颠覆性技术的扩散，《Diffusion Of Innovation》则主要在于论述创新的扩散。 (展开)
0 有用 冰湖守夜人 2021-03-22 00:28:58
碎片化论断多，支持多为一些例子，不够有力。有时反反复复说一个观点，且分布在全书的不同部分，bad writer.理论上的问题在于作者尝试将所有purposed system归结在一套规律下，但是如果一套理论能解释经济，政治，法律，商业，技术，etc.， 它就什么也不能解释。作者定位是个做computational simulation的实证社会学家，理论著述相对于他的虚拟世界程序来说，并不算非常精... 碎片化论断多，支持多为一些例子，不够有力。有时反反复复说一个观点，且分布在全书的不同部分，bad writer.理论上的问题在于作者尝试将所有purposed system归结在一套规律下，但是如果一套理论能解释经济，政治，法律，商业，技术，etc.， 它就什么也不能解释。作者定位是个做computational simulation的实证社会学家，理论著述相对于他的虚拟世界程序来说，并不算非常精彩。 (展开)
0 有用 目送飞鸿 2020-10-31 18:44:42
这本书忍着读完，证明是浪费时间。作者认为技术由已有技术组合而成，随着技术的积累，组合可能越来越多，作为一种复杂系统，技术具有自组合和涌现的特点，自我推动进化至更为复杂的阶段。这也是圣塔菲学院研究复杂系统和自组合系统的结果，写地很散，跟啥也没说一样。
1 有用 容懂 2010-05-10 10:29:14
This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bor... This is one of the few books that I had high expectation for but chose to throw away after wading through the first chapters. Self-claimed originality and stifling pedantry are just the nature of “Bore-ology”. (展开)