The Evolution of Technology¶
Basalla, G. (1988). The Evolution of Technology. Cambridge University Press.
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Primes¶
- Convergent Evolution
- In technology and engineering, independent invention is convergent evolution in an artifactual substrate: the telephone was patented near-simultaneously by Bell and Gray, the airplane and the automobile were approached independently by many inventors, and the same engineering solution (the arch, the wheel, the suspension bridge) recurs across civilizations that never contacted one another — separate design lineages converging on the same form because the same physical constraints reward it.
This sourceAn evolutionary account of technological change documenting independent invention and the recurrence of artifacts (the wheel, the arch) across non-communicating cultures under shared physical constraints.
- In technology and engineering, independent invention is convergent evolution in an artifactual substrate: the telephone was patented near-simultaneously by Bell and Gray, the airplane and the automobile were approached independently by many inventors, and the same engineering solution (the arch, the wheel, the suspension bridge) recurs across civilizations that never contacted one another — separate design lineages converging on the same form because the same physical constraints reward it.
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