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Title: HISTORY AND FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
CAN TECHNOLOGY SAVE HUMANITY FROM EXTINCTION?
By: Robert U. Ayres
Format: Paperback / softback

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ISBN 10: 3030713954
ISBN 13: 9783030713959
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Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND AG
Pub. date: 29 July, 2022
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
Pages: 830
Description: 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. 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.
Illustrations: 219 Tables, color; 217 Illustrations, color; 69 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 830 p. 286 illus., 217 illus. in color.
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