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Commentary
Nature 455, 1030-1031 (23 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/4551030a; Published online 22 October 2008
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David Edgerton1
- David Edgerton is at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. He is the author of The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900.
Email: d.edgerton@imperial.ac.uk
Abstract
Science policies based on techno-nationalist thinking and fantasies about the past technological revolutions will get us nowhere fast, says David Edgerton.
The steam engine changed the world. So too did electricity and the internal combustion engine, atomic power, and the Internet.
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