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" Technology is the application of science, engineering, and industrial organization to create a human-built world. It has led, in developed nations, to a standard of living inconceivable a hundred years ago. The process, however, is not free of stress;... "
Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology - Page ix
by Robert Pool - 1997 - 368 pages
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Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age

Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson - Computers - 1997 - 384 pages
...Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson Preface Technology is the application of science, engineering, and industrial...private and public institutions, economic systems, communications networks, political structures, international affiliations, the organization of societies,...
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Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High ...

Craig Canine - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 320 pages
...in the Twentieth Century by Thomas A. Heppenheimer PREFACE TO THE SLOAN TECHNOLOGY SERIES TECHNOLOGY is THE application of science, engineering, and industrial...private and public institutions, economic systems, communications networks, political structures, international affiliations, the organization of societies,...
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Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century

Bettyann Kevles - Diagnostic imaging - 1997 - 412 pages
...294 74. Annie Liebovitz, Laurie Anderson MRI 295 Preface to the Sloan Technolo?ij teri T le echnology is the application of science, engineering, and industrial...private and public institutions, economic systems, communications networks, political structures, international affiliations, the organization of societies,...
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City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics

Jeff Hecht - Science - 2004 - 346 pages
...TA1800.H42 1999 621.36'92— dc21 98-6135 579864 -Lsotu. Preface to the Sloan Technology Series Technology is the application of science, engineering, and industrial...private and public institutions, economic systems, communications networks, political structures, international affiliations, the organization of societies,...
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City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics

Jeff Hecht - Science - 2004 - 346 pages
...1999 621.36'92— dc21 98-6135 579864 F.or tola. — Preface to the Sloan Technology Series Technology is the application of science. engineering. and industrial organization to create a human-built world. 1t has led. in developed nations. to a standard of living inconceivable a hundred years ago. The process....
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Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work

Larry A. Hickman - Philosophy - 2001 - 236 pages
...books about technology, apparently subscribes to this view. "Technology," the series editor writes, "is the application of science, engineering, and industrial organization to create a human-built world."7 This popular notion carries with it the implication — which it will be the task of the essays...
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