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The History and Future of Technology = Can Technology Save Humanity from Extinction? /

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正題名/作者:	The History and Future of Technology/ by Robert U. Ayres.
其他題名:	Can Technology Save Humanity from Extinction? /
作者:	Ayres, Robert U.
面頁冊數:	XVIII, 830 p. 286 illus., 217 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Natural Resource and Energy Economics. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71393-5
ISBN:	9783030713935

The History and Future of Technology = Can Technology Save Humanity from Extinction? /
Ayres, Robert U.

The History and Future of TechnologyCan Technology Save Humanity from Extinction? /[electronic resource] :by Robert U. Ayres. - 1st ed. 2021. - XVIII, 830 p. 286 illus., 217 illus. in color.online resource.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fire and water: technologies extending nature -- Chapter 3. Extensions of the body -- Chapter 4. Words and music -- Chapter 5. Printing, movable type and books -- Chapter 6. The Enlightenment: the rise of science -- Chapter 7. The first stage of industrialization: coking and canals (1712- 1820) -- Chapter 8. Machine tools and mechanization -- Chapter 9. The triumph of steam and steel (1820-1876) -- Chapter 10. Petroleum and petrochemicals -- Chapter 11. Anesthesia, surgery, and modern medicine -- Chapter 12. Mobility: From rails to roads to space travel -- Chapter 13. Electricity and electrification of factories and homes -- Chapter 14. Communications: From carrier pigeons to telephones and radio (1876-1976) -- Chapter 15. The history of artifiicial light -- Chapter 16. Electronic broadcast media: radio and TV -- Chapter 17. Photography and movies -- Chapter 18. The transistor transition: 1945-1969 -- Chapter 19. Machine computation and digitization -- Chapter 20. The Internet and the Worldwide Web -- Chapter 21. The Eco-footprint of material wealth: pollution, climate change and epidemics -- Chapter 22. Nuclear power -- Chapter 23. Solar Power and renewables -- Chapter 24. Scarce elements and scarce metals -- Chapter 25. Food and agriculture -- Chapter 26. Biotechnology and Human Health -- Chapter 27. Can technology save Homo Sapiens from Extinction? Utopia 2120.

Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In our genus Homo, language evolved in response to a need for our ancestors to communicate, both in the moment, and to posterity. A band of hunters had no chance in competition with predators that were larger and faster without this type of organization, which eventually gave birth to writing and music. The steam engine did not leap fully formed from the brain of James Watt. It evolved from a need to pump water out of coal mines, driven by a need to burn coal instead of firewood, in turn due to deforestation. Later, the steam engine made machines and mechanization possible. Even quite simple machines increased human productivity by a factor of hundreds, if not thousands. That was the Industrial Revolution. If we count electricity and the automobile as a second industrial revolution, and the digital computer as the beginning of a third, the world is now on the cusp of a fourth revolution led by microbiology. These industrial revolutions have benefited many in the short term, but devastated the Earth’s ecosystems. Can technology save the human race from the catastrophic consequences of its past success? That is the question this book will try to answer.

ISBN: 9783030713935

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-71393-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1113585
Natural Resource and Energy Economics.

LC Class. No.: T14.7-33

Dewey Class. No.: 600.09

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