Inventing Accuracy
Author: MacKenzie, Donald
ISBN: 9780262631471
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 29 Jan 1993
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
b>"Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern."/b>p>Donald MacKenzie follows one line of technology-strategic ballistic missile guidance through a succession of weapons systems to reveal the workings of a world that is neither awesome nor unstoppable. He uncovers the parameters, the pressures, and the politics that make up the complex social construction of an equally complex technology./p>
ISBN: 9780262631471
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 29 Jan 1993
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
b>"Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern."/b>p>Donald MacKenzie follows one line of technology-strategic ballistic missile guidance through a succession of weapons systems to reveal the workings of a world that is neither awesome nor unstoppable. He uncovers the parameters, the pressures, and the politics that make up the complex social construction of an equally complex technology./p>
