Technology category: 51960 books
Technology Choices
Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work.
Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example,...
Techno-Ready Marketing
How and Why Customers Adopt Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
Conventional techniques for marketing technology products fail primarily because marketers do not truly understand their customers. Do you know what customers really think about your technology? Now, drawing on their award-winning research and case studies ranging from America Online to the Discovery...
by Alan L. Porter, Scott W. Cunningham, Jerry Banks
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Published in 1991, the first edition of Forecasting and Management of Technology was one of the leading handful of books to deal with the topic of forecasting of technology and technology management as this discipline was emerging. The new, revised edition of this book will build on this knowledge...
The Nature of Technology
What It Is and How It Evolves
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from?...
Educational Leadership and Technology
Preparing School Administrators for a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Providing models of exemplary use and the latest research, Educational Leadership and Technology reveals the transformational power of emerging technologies to improve student learning, and explores how leaders can bring about this technology integration. This book provides an overview of roles and...
Technology Matters
Questions to Live With
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing new tools for more elegant...
Digital Technology and the Contemporary University
Degrees of digitization
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Digital Technology and the Contemporary University examines the often messy realities of higher education in the ‘digital age’. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, the book explores the intimate links between digital technology and wider shifts within contemporary higher...
Surviving the Death of Technology: Prepper's Survival Guide with Tips to Prepping for Technology Collapse
Off the Grid Living Hacks
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Technology is all around us in almost everything that we own and use on a daily basis. We have technology in our homes, schools, work and even our modes of transportation. We use technology to communicate with one another and conduct business on a day to day fashion.
Now when we talk about...
Concentrating Solar Power Technology
Principles, Developments and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Concentrating solar power (CSP) technology is poised to take its place as one of the major contributors to the future clean energy mix. Using straightforward manufacturing processes, CSP technology capitalises on conventional power generation cycles, whilst cost effectively matching supply and demand...
Architectural Technology
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
… it gives me great pleasure to support the first ever publication to specifically address the area of research, and in particular its relationship with practice, in the discipline of architectural technology…not only ground breaking because it is the first book of its kind, but also because it...
ULSI Front-End Technology
Covering from the First Semiconductor Paper to CMOS FINFET Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
The main focus of this book is ULSI front-end technology. It covers from the early history of semiconductor science & technology from 1874 to state-of-the-art FINFET technology in 2016. Some ULSI back-end technology is also covered, for example, the science and technology of MIM capacitors for...
by Max Frasier, Doug Hearrington
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
The technology coordinator can be seen as the orchestrator in the school or district, able to balance technology policies and procedures with device-specific requirements, locate funding and support, and facilitate ongoing training and support. In a time when technology is constantly changing, the...
by Kevin Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision oftechnology as a living force that can expand our individual potential
This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal...
by Sheila Jasanoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
We live in a world increasingly governed by technology—but to what end?
Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology....