Ebook {Epub PDF} The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 by David Edgerton

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The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since $ Only 4 left in stock - order soon. Standard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clich#;d claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology. The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since The Shock Of The Old.: Standard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask.