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  • Publisher:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Publication date:
    10 February 2021
    20 March 2017
    ISBN:
    9789048536504
    9789462985407
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048536504
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    • Subjects:
    Physical Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
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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.

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