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布萊恩•阿瑟(Brian Arthur)
復雜性科學的重要奠基人。擁有加州大學伯剋利分校經濟學博士學位,37 歲就成為斯坦福大學最年輕的經濟學教授。
聖塔菲研究所元老級人物。投身於復雜性科學領域研究,在聖塔菲研究所“科學委員會”任職時間長達18 年,在“理事會”任職10 年。
研究正反饋機製的先驅,以“收益遞增規律”為基礎形成瞭自己的新經濟思想。
榮獲復雜性科學領域的首屆拉格朗日奬。
1990 年榮獲熊彼特奬。
"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.
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The Nature of Technology 下載 mobi epub pdf 電子書近70多年的科學研究號稱打開瞭很多“黑箱”。認知科學打開瞭心智的黑箱,神經科學打開瞭大腦的黑箱,遺傳學傢解開瞭DNA密碼,胚胎學傢打開瞭胚胎發育的黑箱,而阿瑟打開瞭技術的黑箱…… 然而,打開之後,科學傢們發現,實際上還是沒法解答他們的問題,人類基因組已經完全破譯...
評分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”.
評分 評分一句話概括本書內容:技術是什麼?如何進化? 技術的本質是被捕獲並加以利用的現象的集閤,現象是技術的基因,技術的進化在於新的原理或者不同原理的實踐,重新組閤有機會誕生新技術。這一部分可以聯係另外一本書《增長的本質》。 技術不是科學和經濟的副産品,反之纔是。 現在...
評分 評分##作者當然大名鼎鼎,沒的說。但是: 1.內容真的一般,關於技術的進化並沒有交代的令人信服; 2.比起KK的作品,想象力遠不如,變現力也不好; 3.作者的的優勢在技術和經濟的結閤之處,但缺乏描述,不知是何原因; 4.湛廬的商業化運作太過操切; 5.請來寫序的清華教授其實真心不懂...
評分 評分 評分The Nature of Technology mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式下載 2024