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Nature 446, 980-981 (26 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446980a; Published online 25 April 2007
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A user's guide to technology
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BOOK REVIEWED-The Shock of the Old: Technology in Global History Since 1900
by David Edgerton
Profile/Oxford University Press: 2007. 320 pp. £18.99/$26
As an academic discipline, the history of technology has spent many decades refining models of technological change. There has been a move from a relatively deterministic 'engineering darwinism' to considering technologies, at least in part, as being elicited and selected in the light of social values, aspirations and prejudices.
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