Men, machines, and modern times / (Record no. 73479)
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| fixed length control field | 04026nam a2200541 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 7862434 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204859.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 170316s2016 maua ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262336581 |
| -- | electronic bk. |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | electronic bk. |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | paperback |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Morison, Elting Elmore, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Men, machines, and modern times / |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 50th anniversary edition. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (xxv, 312 pages) : |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| Remark 1 | Includes index. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| Remark 1 | "Originally published in 1966 by the MIT Press. Reprinted with corrections." |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Remark 2 | Introductory observations, personal and otherwise -- Gunfire at sea : a case study of innovation -- Data processing in a bureau drawer -- The pertinence of the past in computing the future -- A little more on the computer -- Men and machinery -- "Almost the greatest invention" -- Some proposals. |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel had to explain that a wheelbarrow could carry more than a person. This little book by a celebrated MIT professor -- the fiftieth anniversary edition of a classic -- describes how we learn to live and work with innovation. Elting Morison considers, among other things, the three stages of users' resistance to change: ignoring it; rational rebuttal; and name-calling. He recounts the illustrative anecdote of the World War II artillerymen who stood still to hold the horses despite the fact that the guns were now hitched to trucks -- reassuring those of us who have trouble with a new interface or a software upgrade that we are not the first to encounter such problems. Morison offers an entertaining series of historical accounts to highlight his major theme: the nature of technological change and society's reaction to that change. He begins with resistance to innovation in the U.S. Navy following an officer's discovery of a more accurate way to fire a gun at sea; continues with thoughts about bureaucracy, paperwork, and card files; touches on rumble seats, the ghost in Hamlet, and computers; tells the strange history of a new model steamship in the 1860s; and describes the development of the Bessemer steel process. Each instance teaches a lesson about the more profound and current problem of how to organize and manage systems of ideas, energies, and machinery so that it will conform to the human dimension." |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | Philosophy. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | Philosophy. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7862434 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | The MIT Press, |
| -- | [2016] |
| 264 #2 - | |
| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2016] |
| 336 ## - | |
| -- | text |
| -- | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - | |
| -- | electronic |
| -- | isbdmedia |
| 338 ## - | |
| -- | online resource |
| -- | rdacarrier |
| 588 0# - | |
| -- | Print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Technology |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Inventions. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Technological innovations. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Inventions. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Technological innovations. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Technology |
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