Engineering the Future, Understanding the Past: A Social History of Technology

Mila Davids; Ruth Oldenziel; Erik van der Vleuten

doi:10.1017/9789048536504

Engineering the Future, Understanding the Past

A Social History of Technology

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Mila Davids, Ruth Oldenziel, Erik van der Vleuten

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2021
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9789048536504
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048536504

Subjects:: Physical Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology

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Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintended consequences that themselves require solving.

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A Social History of Technology

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-7

List of figures
pp 8-8

Preface
pp 9-11

Introduction: Engineering for a Changing World
pp 12-21

1 - The Age of Promise, 1815-1914
pp 22-61

2 - The Age of Crisis, 1914-1945
pp 62-91

3 - The Age of Technocracy, 1945-1970
pp 92-129

4 - The Age of Participation, 1970-2015
pp 130-161

Epilogue: Engineering the Future
pp 162-174

Notes
pp 175-188

References
pp 189-206

Illustration Credits
pp 207-208

Index
pp 209-212

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