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.
##I will give technology three definitions that we will use throughout the book. The first and most basic one is that a technology is a means to fulfill a human purpose. For some technologies—oil refining—the purpose is explicit. For others—the computer—t...
評分 評分##Sets of language
評分##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...
評分 評分##技術的本質是什麼 人們對於單個技術很熟悉,而對技術作為一個整體,研究地很生疏,這是因為關於‘技術’到底是什麼,我們並沒有達成共識。 布萊恩主要基於三個基本原理,逐級地構建瞭他的關於技術的理論: (1)技術(所有的技術)都是某種組閤,這意味著任何具體技術都是由當...
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