The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves

by W. Brian Arthur

Book Overview

"More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being," says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology's irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from? What constitutes innovation, and how is it achieved? Does technology, like biological life, evolve? In this groundbreaking work, pioneering technology thinker...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416544062
• ISBN13: 9781416544067
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"