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The History of Computing in the History of Technology

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 1988
The author critically surveys the current state of literature in the history of computing. He then discusses some of the major issues addressed by recent work in the history of technology. For his discussion the author divides his article into six sections viz.
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History and technological history

Antiquity, 1973
With their latest publication Joseph Needham and his collaborators, according to the plan announced in the first volume, have reached the midpoint of their magistral undertaking, and their 4,016 th page. One can only guess how many more books are to be expected, since the present one covering roads, building, bridges, hydraulics and nautics in 931 ...
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Technology, Growth, and History

Journal of Political Economy, 1976
There are some economic problems for which historical analysis is especially well suited, indeed essential. Economic historians who fail to be motivated by this fact are doomed to have only the most limited and transitory impact on economic thought. Paul David is one of our best pathfinders in this entwined thicket of theory and history. The appearance
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Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories

Topics in Cognitive Science
Abstract Cognitive technologies are socially shared and culturally evolved systems whose function is principally cognitive. Throughout human history and prehistory, they have aided in classifying, organizing, or managing information and knowledge, including ideas, language, and material culture.
Stephen, Chrisomalis, Helena, Miton
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Business History and the History of Technology

Business History Review, 1980
Business enterprise in a market setting is the principal institutional artifact of capitalism, while capitalism itself is the creation of powerful evolutionary forces that were present in the culture of Europe. Those evolutionary forces continue their play into the present, working within the distinctive cultural context determined by an evolving ...
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