The Nature of Technology by W Brian Arthur

The Nature of Technology by W Brian Arthur

More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being, says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology's irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from? What constitutes innovation, and how is it achieved? Does technology, like biological life, evolve? In this groundbreaking work, pioneering technology thinker and economist W. Brian Arthur answers these questions and more, setting forth a boldly original way of thinking about technology.

The Nature of Technology is an elegant and powerful theory of technology's origins and evolution. Achieving for the development of technology what Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for scientific progress, Arthur explains how transformative new technologies arise and how innovation really works. Drawing on a wealth of examples, from historical inventions to the high-tech wonders of today, Arthur takes us on a mind-opening journey that will change the way we think about technology and how it structures our lives. The Nature of Technology is a classic for our times.

W. Brian Arthur is a Citibank Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. From 1983 to 1996 he was Dean and Virginia Morrison Professor of Population Studies and Economics at Stanford University. Arthur has been associated with the Santa Fe Institute since 1987; he directed its first program: the economy as an evolving, complex system. He currently serves on SFI's science board and its board of trustees and is well known in economics for his work on increasing return and path dependence. Steven N. Durlauf is professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and since 1996 co-director of the economics program at the Santa Fe Institute. He received his B.A. in economics from Harvard in 1980 and his Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1986. He has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, econometrics, and income inequality. David A. Lane is professor of statistics in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Modena in Italy. He is a member of the external faculty and the science board of the Santa Fe Institute and is a past co-director of the Institute's economics program. W. Brian Arthur is a Citibank Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. From 1983 to 1996 he was Dean and Virginia Morrison Professor of Population Studies and Economics at Stanford University. Arthur has been associated with the Santa Fe Institute since 1987; he directed its first program: the economy as an evolving, complex system. He currently serves on SFI's science board and its board of trustees and is well known in economics for his work on increasing return and path dependence. Steven N. Durlauf is professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and since 1996 co-director of the economics program at the Santa Fe Institute. He received his B.A. in economics from Harvard in 1980 and his Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1986. He has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, econometrics, and income inequality. David A. Lane is professor of statistics in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Modena in Italy. He is a member of the external faculty and the science board of the Santa Fe Institute and is a past co-director of the Institute's economics program.

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ISBN 13	9781416544050
ISBN 10	1416544054
Title	The Nature of Technology
Author	W Brian Arthur
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Binding Type	Microfilm
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2009-08-11
Number of pages	251
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