The Nature of Technology

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W. Brian Arthur
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Free Press 2009-8-11 Hardcover 9781416544050

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布萊恩•阿瑟(Brian Arthur)

 復雜性科學的重要奠基人。擁有加州大學伯剋利分校經濟學博士學位,37 歲就成為斯坦福大學最年輕的經濟學教授。

 聖塔菲研究所元老級人物。投身於復雜性科學領域研究,在聖塔菲研究所“科學委員會”任職時間長達18 年,在“理事會”任職10 年。

 研究正反饋機製的先驅,以“收益遞增規律”為基礎形成瞭自己的新經濟思想。

 榮獲復雜性科學領域的首屆拉格朗日奬。

 1990 年榮獲熊彼特奬。

"More than any thing else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being," says W. Brian Arthur. Yet, until now the major questions of technology have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from -- how exactly does invention work? What constitutes innovation, and how is it achieved? Why are certain regions -- Cambridge, England, in the 1920s and Silicon Valley today -- hotbeds of innovation, while others languish? Does technology, like biological life, evolve? How do new industries, and the economy itself, emerge from technologies? In this groundbreaking work, pioneering technology thinker and economist W. Brian Arthur sets forth a boldly original way of thinking about technology that gives answers to these questions. The Nature of Technology is an elegant and powerful theory of technology's origins and evolution. It achieves for the progress of technology what Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for scientific progress. Arthur explains how transformative new technologies arise and how innovation really works. Conventional thinking ascribes the invention of technologies to "thinking outside the box," or vaguely to genius or creativity, but Arthur shows that such explanations are inadequate. Rather, technologies are put together from pieces -- themselves technologies -- that already exist. Technologies therefore share common ancestries and combine, morph, and combine again to create further technologies. Technology evolves much as a coral reef builds itself from activities of small organisms -- it creates itself from itself; all technologies are descended from earlier technologies. Drawing on a wealth of examples, from historical inventions to the high-tech wonders of today, and writing in wonder fully engaging and clear prose, Arthur takes us on a mind-opening journey that will change the way we think about technology and how it structures our lives.

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近70多年的科學研究號稱打開瞭很多“黑箱”。認知科學打開瞭心智的黑箱,神經科學打開瞭大腦的黑箱,遺傳學傢解開瞭DNA密碼,胚胎學傢打開瞭胚胎發育的黑箱,而阿瑟打開瞭技術的黑箱…… 然而,打開之後,科學傢們發現,實際上還是沒法解答他們的問題,人類基因組已經完全破譯...  

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##1. 許久沒有的閱讀快感。 2. 務必讀英文版的。 3. 與《The Innovator's Dilemma》和《Diffusion Of Innovation》兩本書一起閱讀,收獲更多。《The Nature of Technology》從技術哲學角度,比較晦澀,《The Innovator's dilemma》更多的是從商業角度,解決瞭前者沒有說明的purpose(技術的目的);《Innovator's dilemma》也有大量關於disruptive technology顛覆性技術的擴散,《Diffusion Of Innovation》則主要在於論述創新的擴散。 我剛剛在想,為什麼我要說阿瑟誇誇其談、嘩眾取寵呢?即使他囉裏八嗦就說瞭一個核心觀點,然後又東拉西扯做瞭一些不準確的類比和擴展,也沒有必要這麼刻薄人傢呀。等我總結說,他的核心觀點是“技術是模塊化構成”,而他的其他一些觀點不過似是而非的時候我自己纔明白過來,原...  

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##作者當然大名鼎鼎,沒的說。但是: 1.內容真的一般,關於技術的進化並沒有交代的令人信服; 2.比起KK的作品,想象力遠不如,變現力也不好; 3.作者的的優勢在技術和經濟的結閤之處,但缺乏描述,不知是何原因; 4.湛廬的商業化運作太過操切; 5.請來寫序的清華教授其實真心不懂...  

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##如果我們從電腦桌前站起來看看我們居住的房子,會發現一個讓你大吃一驚的事實,那就是,在這座房子裏,那些自行其是在工作著的機器的數量已經遠遠大於靜悄悄的傢具。從體積巨大的冰箱、空調,到小小的手機、電動牙刷。而且,如果讓你在這中間捨棄任何一樣,你都會覺得生活變得...  

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##如果我們從電腦桌前站起來看看我們居住的房子,會發現一個讓你大吃一驚的事實,那就是,在這座房子裏,那些自行其是在工作著的機器的數量已經遠遠大於靜悄悄的傢具。從體積巨大的冰箱、空調,到小小的手機、電動牙刷。而且,如果讓你在這中間捨棄任何一樣,你都會覺得生活變得...  

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