Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition
Elting E. Morison
Explore the history of how people have adapted to new technology with this engaging read by an MIT professor. Delve into how we learn to live and work with innovation through entertaining historical accounts, highlighting the nature of technological change and society's reaction to it. Discover the three stages of users' resistance to change, learn about the strange history of a model steamship, and consider the more profound problem of how to organize and manage systems of ideas, energies, and machinery to conform to the human dimension.
Publish Date
1968-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
1968-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1966
Goodreads Rating
3.84
ISBN
9780262529310
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2018-12-03T02:49:44.000Z
@patio11 "The act of invention may simply be making conscious, explicit, and regular what has been done for a considerable time unconsciously or by accident." Elting Morison in which is a great book. – source