Comparing authors
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Technology and the creation of cultural imbalances in world history |
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Pacey |
Pursell |
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| frame |
1000 years |
1 million years |
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| origins |
Keystone inventions from Asia |
expression of human bodily coordination |
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| focus |
dialogue |
behavior |
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"it was as if a dailogue had developed, with stimulus to invent and improve techniques stemming from exchange..." |
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"... artefacts and ideas." |
form - organization - ideology |
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p. 1 |
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pp. 32-33. |
| Concepts |
tool complexes |
adaptive |
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hydraulic engineering |
exaptation |
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Asia |
Europe, America, the World |
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• iron making and forges |
• standardization |
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• ships (wood, sails, and rigging) |
• sequencing |
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• paper, printing, books |
• uniformity |
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• looms for weaving |
• interchangeable parts |
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Buddhism |
Three myths of manufacture
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relations |
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| dialectic |
survival versus fine technology |
tension in intent versus outcome |
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| people |
population |
insiders and outcasts |
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Agriculture |
Mechanization |
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| sources |
Arnold Pacey, Technology
in World Civilization, (Cambridge, Mass.:MIT Press, 1990). |
Carroll Pursell, White Heat, (California, :UC Press, 1992). |
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Pursell | Pacey | Postman | Kaku
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