Knowing machines : essays on technical change /

MacKenzie, Donald A.,

Knowing machines : essays on technical change / Donald MacKenzie. - viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Inside technology . - Inside technology. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Marx and the Machine -- Economic and Sociological Explanations of Technological change -- From the Luminiferous Ether to the Boeing 757 -- Nuclear Weapons Laboratories and the Development of Supercomputing -- The Charismatic Engineer -- The Fangs of the VIPER -- Negotiating Arithmetic, Constructing Proof -- Computer-Related Accidental Death -- Tacit Knowledge and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons -- Notes -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

0262133156 9780262133159

95032334


Technology--Social aspects.

T14.5. / M32 1996

306.46

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