The history of technology is often troubled by good ideas that do not, for one reason or another, take off right away--sometimes for millennia
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1: Technology: A Fundamental Structure?; 2: Knowledge Mapping: The Consolidation of the Technology Management Discipline; 3: Management of Technology: A Three-Dimensional Framework with Propositions for Future Research; 4: Unique Features of an R&D Work Environment and Research Scientists and Engineers; 5: Understanding Software Technology; 6: The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues; 7: Some Philosophical Thoughts on theNature of Technology; 8: The Biology of Technology-An Exploratory Essay 1; 9: Technological Semantics and Technological Practice: Lessons from an Enigmatic Episode in Twentieth-Century Technology Studies