Beyond Engineering

This volume in the Sloan Foundation Technology Book series explores the forces that drive technological development along the specific paths that it takes, using the nuclear power industry as a recurrent case study example, but drawing in other technologies, such as personal computers and software, automobiles, electrical power and space flight as examples where appropriate, to demonstrate the general applicability of the findings presented. Each chapter tackles the subject from a different angle: how historical events help determine the eventual shape of technology, the psychology of a technological revolution, the influence that business decisions and economics factors wield over technological change, political decision making, culture and technology, and the implications and impacts of complexity in modern technology.