Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

Historian Thomas J. Misa’s sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this compelling work evaluates what Misa calls "the question of technology."Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability. A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries,__Leonardo to the Internet__frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world

Historian Thomas J. Misa’s sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this compelling work evaluates what Misa calls "the question of technology."

Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability. A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world

This book is the author's history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped, and have been shaped by, the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this work evaluates what the author, a historian, calls "the question of technology." He brings the text of the first edition up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability. An analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, the book frames a history that illuminates modern day problems and prospects faced by our technology dependent world List of Figures and Tables 8 Preface 10 Acknowledgments 20 1 : Technologies of the Court, 1450–1600 22 2 : Techniques of Commerce, 1588–1740 55 3 : Geographies of Industry, 1740–1851 81 4 : Instruments of Empire, 1840–1914 119 5 : Science and Systems, 1870–1930 150 6 : Materials of Modernism, 1900–1950 180 7 : The Means of Destruction, 1936–1990 213 8 : Toward Global Culture, 1970–2001 248 9 : Paths to Insecurity, 2001–2010 284 10 : The Question of Technology 323 Notes 344 Notes on Sources 386 Index 396 A history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, it evaluates what the author calls "the question of technology". Uitgelegd wordt dat elke historische samenleving gekenmerkt wordt door specifieke 'defining purposes' die de technische ontwikkeling sturen. De onstane technieken hebben invloed op de economische, politieke en culturele mogelijkheden van een samenleving. NL-ZmNBD