Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

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Vaclav Smil
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From theNew 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,...
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Vaclav Smil
Язык
Английский
ISBN
9780262048057
Дата выхода
2023

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Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

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