technological innovations

Fire up your soldering iron and get ready to hack! The ingenious projects in this book are perfect for aspiring DIY-ers, from improvising a fisheye lens for your camera or an automatic cat feeder to a solar-powered backpack to keep your gadgets charged, you'll find over 200 ideas to get your geek on!.

Johansson describes how the intersection of different fields, disciplines or cultures can be a place where new ideas and innovative breakthroughs occur.

Peter Schwartz examines the innovations and dynamic forces that are shaping the world today and discusses how they may impact the future, encouraging people to look towards the future so they can fully comprehend the consequences of their own actions and their link to changes in society, the economy, government, and the environment.

A boy grows up in an optimistic and ambitious era of technological promise from 1939-1975, amid developments in industry such as rockets and the atom bomb, while learning from his father and holding onto his hopes for the future.

Explores how the latest advances in computer technology have influenced business, society, and culture around the world and speculates on how those changes will continue to impact life in the future.

Traces the developments in nuclear energy, automobiles, light bulbs, commercial electricity, and personal computers, to show how historical, political, cultural, organizational, economic, and psychological factors all influence the path a technology takes.

Contains photographs, drawings, and maps that depict the physical survivals of technologies of the American industrial revolution, most of which are displayed in the Smithsonian Institution; and includes text that explains the technology and related aspects of the era.

Describes the origins of such commonly used devices as shoes, chairs, baby bottles, and the layout of typewriters and keyboards, showing how they affect the human body and steer people away from their natural traits and capabilities.

Presents the findings of a long-term study on a group of companies that made the leap from good to great and sustained those results for at least fifteen years, looking at how those businesses compared with organizations that failed to achieve high performance, and identifying the factors that make the difference.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the industrial revolution in the United States, as society changed from reliance on agriculture and trade to modern manufacture.