Tag: Technology
Book Summary:“Leonardo to the Internet” by Thomas Misa
Book Summary: “The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism..” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human” by Richard Wrangham
Book Summary: “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton Christensen
Book Summary: “The Myths of Innovation” by Scott Berkun
Book Summary: “Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth” by Lipsey, Carlaw and Bekar
Book Summary: “The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution” by Rick Szostak
Book Summary: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap” by Gregory Nemet
Book Summary: “The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis” by Ruth DeFries
Book Summary: “Abundance: The Future Is Better than You Think” by Diamandis and Kotler
Book Summary: “Accidental Empires: How… Silicon Valley Make Their Millions” by Robert X Cringely
Book Summary: “Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire” by Wallace and Erickson
Book Summary: “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet” by Hafner and Lyon
Book Summary: “The Camel and the Wheel” by Richard Bulliet
Book Summary: “The Box: How the Shipping Container…” by Marc Levinson
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Book Summary: “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” by Steven Johnson
Book Summary: “Alchemy of Air: … the Scientific Discovery that Fed the World” by Thomas Hager
Book Summary: “Ingenium: Five Machines that Changed the World” by Mark Denny
Book Summary: “Energy Transitions” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization: The History of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil…” by Daniel Yergin
Book Summary: “Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments and Western Imperialism…” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Technology: A World History” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Transforming the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt
Book Summary: “Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction” by McClellan and Dorn
Book Summary: “Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy” by Tim Harford
Book Summary: “Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge” by Matt Ridley
Article Summary: “Long-term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations” by Spolaore and Wacziarg
Article Summary: “Five Facts You Need to Know about Technology Diffusion” by Comin, Hobijn and Rovito
Book Summary: “Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention” by Francis Moon
Article Summary: “Long-term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations” by Spolaore and Wacziarg
Article Summary: “An Exploration of Technology Diffusion” by Comin and Hobijn
Book Summary: “Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism 1850-1940” by Daniel R. Headrick
Article Summary: “Technology as a Complex Adaptive System” by Fleming and Sorenson
The Ratchet of Technology, a site by Michael Magoon 