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Men Machines And Modern Times Elting E Morison

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Men Machines And Modern Times Elting E Morison
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Publisher: The MIT Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 1.18 MB
Author: Elting E. Morison
ISBN: 9780262529310, 9780262336574, 0262529319, 026233657X, 50ee3738-a63a-4867-9ea5-72a221751d8b
Language: English
Year: 2016

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Men Machines And Modern Times Elting E Morison by Elting E. Morison 9780262529310, 9780262336574, 0262529319, 026233657X, 50ee3738-a63a-4867-9ea5-72a221751d8b instant download after payment.

People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel had to explain that a wheelbarrow could carry more than a person. This little book by a celebrated MIT professor — the fiftieth anniversary edition of a classic — describes how we learn to live and work with innovation. Elting Morison considers, among other things, the three stages of users' resistance to change: ignoring it; rational rebuttal; and name-calling. He recounts the illustrative anecdote of the World War II artillerymen who stood still to hold the horses despite the fact that the guns were now hitched to trucks — reassuring those of us who have trouble with a new interface or a software upgrade that we are not the first to encounter such problems. Morison offers an entertaining series of historical accounts to highlight his major theme: the nature of technological change and society's reaction to that change. He begins with resistance to innovation in...

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