Teknikens historia

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break thing...

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Ingenjörerna är sammanflätade med Sveriges moderna historia. De var ett par tusen i slutet av 1800-talet, de är flera hundratusen nu. Genom snilleföretagen gjorde de Sverige rikt, i folkhemmet konstruerade de den grundläggande välfärden - vatten o...

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Arkitekten och överintendenten Carl Johan Cronstedt presenterade 1767 ett memorial med titeln "Beskrifning på Ny Inrättning af Kakelugnar til Weds Besparing för Rikets råd". Där beskrevs en revolutionerande konstruktion som skulle komma ...

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Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands o...

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#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller #2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES Epic feats. Epic failu...

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Varje år rankas Sverige som ett av de ledande innovationsländerna, sett till antal historiskt banbrytande uppfinningar, patent i förhållande till folkmängden eller nystartade innovationsföretag. Den traditionella förklaringen till denna styrkeposi...

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Every year, Sweden ranks near the top of the list of the world"s most innovative countries in terms of the number of historically epoch-making innovations, patents granted per capita and innovation start-up companies. The most common reason c...

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A classic work in the history of science, and described as a good book on rocket stuffthats a really fun one by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. Th...

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Listan över människans tekniska uppfinningar har hunnit bli lång. Allt från vattenhjul och urverk till datorer och mobiltelefoner finns i vår tekniska historia. I denna reviderade upplaga berättar Bosse Sundin bl.a. om teknikens roll i de tidiga h...

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Bilbältet, rullatorn, Flygande tunnan , mobiltelefonin och Stålverk 80 är exempel på hur teknik har omvandlat Sverige från andra världskrigets slut fram till millennieskiftet. Under denna förändringens tid har ny teknik gett drivkraft åt svensk in...

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What will the internet of the future look like? The internet was once defined by its sense of creativity and unbridled innovation. But in the last decade, it has fallen under the control of a tiny number of monopolistic companies, who limit its de...

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In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-He...

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I denna bok står vetenskapsmannen och kärnkraftsmotståndaren Hannes Alfvén i centrum. Men det är ingen vanlig biografi, utan det är också en kulturhistorisk skildring av synen på teknik och vetenskap i 1900-talets Sverige. Här tecknas en framtidst...

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From the New York Times bestselling author and deputy editor of the Economist comes an illuminating, incisive, characteristically readable 5,500-year history of how transportation has shaped our civilisation. Tom Standage's surprising global histo...

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'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight' Steven Pinker 'Bold, intriguing, profound' Jay Elwes, Spectator Why can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renown...

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From one of the most brilliant and capacious thinkers of our time, 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 r...

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A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers, reve...

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En intressant bok med hundratals fakta och konstig kuriosa. DEn börjar med ångmaskinens genombrott och slutar i den ännu outforskade rymden.

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Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy ...

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In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, ...

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The Nissan Skyline GT-R was a giant-killer. It dominated the 1990s - on the track, in illegal street racing, and even video games. But the GT-R was never allowed in the U.S. Some risked everything to own one. All for the cult of GT-R.

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If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is. From the industrial revolution and the rise of China, to urbanisation and the bi...

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History is written by the victors. But that is no comfort to those crossed out by the editor's pen. For years, science textbooks equated electricity and light with one man, Thomas Edison, while the genius whose pioneering electrical technologies t...

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there. Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI _ A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet and how that affects u...

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and technology are changing what it mean...

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NOMINERAD TILL ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRICE 2018 »Prosan är elegant och historien om precision är berättad med stor skicklighet. ... Överlag är detta en strålande bok som förtjänas att läsas av alla med intresse för hur teknik och vetenskap da...

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In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on archite...

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The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many decades. Providing readers of all backgrounds and students of all disciplines with the tools to study s...

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Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this ...

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The convergence of military strategy and mathematics in war games, from medieval to modern times. For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbo...

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