The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Shock of the Old Offering a fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, this book radically revises ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. It provides an entirely new way of looking historically at the relationship between technology and society as well as invention and innovation themselves.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Published: 22 January 2007
- Format: Hardback 288 pages
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- Categories: History Of Engineering & Technology | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | 21st Century History: From C 2000 -
- ISBN 13: 9780195322835 ISBN 10: 0195322835
- Sales rank: 307,824
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Full description for The Shock of the Old
From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clich d claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising our ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. He challenges us to view the history of technology in terms of what everyday people have actually used-and continue to use-rather than just sophisticated inventions. Indeed, many highly touted technologies, from the V-2 rocket to the Concorde jet, have been costly failures, while many mundane discoveries, like corrugated iron, become hugely important around the world. Edgerton reassesses the significance of such acclaimed inventions as the Pill and information technology, and underscores the continued importance of unheralded technology, debunking many notions about the implications of the "information age." A provocative history, The Shock of the Old provides an entirely new way of looking historically at the relationship between invention and innovation.
