مهندسی آینده، درک گذشته: تاریخ اجتماعی فناوری

Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintended consequences that themselves require solving. Contents Preface Introduction : Engineering For A Changing World 1. The Age Of Promise, 1815-1914 2. The Age Of Crisis, 1914-1945 3. The Age Of Technocracy, 1945-1970 4. The Age Of Participation, 1970-2015 Epilogue: Engineering The Future Notes References Illustration Credits Index

A collection of essays by the acclaimed film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, written between 1968 and 2005, tracks the crisis of contemporary European cinema, faced by the Hollywood giant on the one hand, and the collapsing national cinema industries on the other.