Invention and Innovation

Name: Invention and Innovation
Brand: MIT Press Ltd
SKU: 9780262048057
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A Brief History of Hype and Failure

Szerző: Vaclav Smil

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From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity and its a...

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Szerző

Vaclav Smil

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2023

oldal

208

EAN

9780262048057

ISBN

0262048051

Enbook ID

39309931

Kiadó

MIT Press Ltd

Súly

499

Méretek

152 x 229 x 23

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From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author a favorite of Bill Gates pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI. He reminds us that even after we go quite far along the invention-development-application trajectory, we may never get anything real to deploy. Or worse, even after we have succeeded by introducing an invention, its future may be marked by underperformance, disappointment, demise, or outright harm.Drawing on his vast breadth of scientific and historical knowledge, Smil explains the difference between invention and innovation. He then looks at three different types of inventions.Inventions that failed to dominate as promised:AirshipsNuclear fissionSupersonic flightInventions that turned disastrous:Leaded gasoline DDTChlorofluorocarbonsInventions we have long been promised (and that would be highly beneficial):Travel in vacuum (hyperloop)Nitrogen-fixing cerealsNuclear fusionFinally, he offers a wish list of inventions that we most urgently need to confront the staggering challenges of the twenty-first century.Filled with engaging examples and pragmatic approaches, this book is a sobering account of the folly that so often attends human ingenuity and how we can, and must, better align our expectations with reality.

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