Engineering the Future, Understanding the Past(English, Electronic book text, Vleuten Erik van der)

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Engineering the Future, Understanding the Past(English, Electronic book text, Vleuten Erik van der) is written by Vleuten Erik van der and published by Amsterdam University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9048536502 (ISBN 10) and 9789048536504 (ISBN 13).

Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintended consequences that themselves require solving.