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How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one …
How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. This is the story …
Blackouts-whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism-offer snapshots of electricity's increasingly central role in American …
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.This volume traces the history of …
How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the …
How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.At the close of …
A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters.When Jay Keyser arrived at MIT in 1977 to head the Department of Linguistics and …