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
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