Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process

Name: Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521542173
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Автор: John Ziman

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Technological artefacts and biological organisms 'evolve' by very similar processes of blind variati...

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Автор

John Ziman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2003

страници

400

EAN

9780521542173

ISBN

0521542170

Enbook ID

02034457

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

722

Размери

190 x 247 x 23

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Technological artefacts and biological organisms 'evolve' by very similar processes of blind variation and selective retention. This analogy is explored systematically, for the first time, by a team of international experts from evolutionary biology, history and sociology of science and technology, cognitive and computer science, economics, psychology, education, cultural anthropology and research management. Do technological 'memes' play the role of genes? In what sense are novel inventions 'blind'? Does the element of design make them 'Lamarckian' rather than 'Darwinian'? Is the recombination of ideas the essence of technological creativity? Can invention be simulated computationally? What are the entities that actually evolve - artefacts, ideas or organisations? These are only some of the many questions stimulated and partially answered by this powerful metaphor. With its practical demonstration of the explanatory potential of 'evolutionary reasoning' in a well-defined context, this book is a ground-breaking contribution to every discipline concerned with cultural change.

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