The Triumph of Technology - Broers, Alec
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Technology has shaped human life since the beginnings of civilization. In these 2005 BBC Reith Lectures Alec Broers shows how we owe to technologists most of what drives our world today. Using easily understood examples, he explains how today's remarkable technologies emerged, and conveys the excitement of the modern creative process. He argues that, as long as we use technology intelligently, it can improve everyone's lives and provide solutions to the problems that threaten our planet. Included here are the complete lectures plus a new introduction and conclusion.

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Technology has shaped human life since the beginnings of civilization. In these 2005 BBC Reith Lectures Alec Broers shows how we owe to technologists most of what drives our world today. Using easily understood examples, he explains how today's remarkable technologies emerged, and conveys the excitement of the modern creative process. He argues that, as long as we use technology intelligently, it can improve everyone's lives and provide solutions to the problems that threaten our planet. Included here are the complete lectures plus a new introduction and conclusion.
Autorenporträt
Lord Broers is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. He spent nineteen years in the research and development laboratories of IBM in the USA and then twenty years at Cambridge University as Professor of Electrical Engineering, Master of Churchill College, Head of the Engineering Department, and Vice-Chancellor. In his research at Cambridge and at IBM, he pioneered the use of electron beams to write the patterns for silicon chips.