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020			_a9780262336581 _qelectronic bk.
020			_z026233657X _qelectronic bk.
020			_z9780262529310 _qpaperback
035			_a(CaBNVSL)mat07862434
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040			_aCaBNVSL _beng _erda _cCaBNVSL _dCaBNVSL
050		4	_aT14 _b.M59 2016eb
100	1		_aMorison, Elting Elmore, _eauthor. _924971
245	1	0	_aMen, machines, and modern times / _cElting E. Morison ; foreword by Rosalind Williams ; with remarks by Leo Marx.
250			_a50th anniversary edition.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe MIT Press, _c[2016]
264		2	_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2016]
300			_a1 PDF (xxv, 312 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aelectronic _2isbdmedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index.
500			_a"Originally published in 1966 by the MIT Press. Reprinted with corrections."
505	0		_aIntroductory 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.
506			_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520	3		_a"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."
530			_aAlso available in print.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web
588	0		_aPrint version record.
650		0	_aTechnology _xPhilosophy. _924972
650		0	_aInventions. _915616
650		0	_aTechnological innovations. _97308
650		7	_aInventions. _2fast _915616
650		7	_aTechnological innovations. _2fast _97308
650		7	_aTechnology _xPhilosophy. _2fast _924972
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93294
710	2		_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _924973
710	2		_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _924974
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMorison, Elting Elmore. _tMen, machines, and modern times. _b50th anniversary edition. _dCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016] _w(DLC) 2016001863 _w(OCoLC)934938831 _z9780262529310
856	4	2	_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7862434
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