Culture's Engine: Inside Science and Technology
In: Springer eBook Collection
1. Introduction -- 2. The odd couple -- 3. Why are humans different -- 4. Three flavours of technology -- 5. Subtle subversives -- 6. The active elements appear -- 7. Drivers of technology -- 8. Technology's other half -- 9. Talk the talk -- 10. Patterns of innovation -- 11. Invention push and market pull -- 12. Deep design -- 13. A hazardous business -- 14. Will anyone want it? -- 15. Failure foreseen -- 16. Can machines think? -- 17. Lady Lovelace's revenge -- 18. The dark side -- 19. Be careful what you wish for -- 20. Past, present, future -- 21. Technology and dreaming.