The Triumph of Technology
The BBC Reith Lectures 2005

This 2005 book explores the emergence of technology and the key role it will play in our future.

Alec Broers (Author)

9780521679657, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 November 2005

132 pages
19.8 x 13.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.163 kg

'… it covers how technology has been fundamental in changing society, how the development of technology occurred and what the future holds.' Cambridge

The Triumph of Technology is taken from Lord Alec Broers' 2005 BBC Reith Lectures on the role and importance of technology in our lives. The lectures discuss the way technology has shaped life since the beginnings of civilization, explaining how we owe to technologists most of what drives our world today, how technologies develop, and the excitement of the modern creative process. There are some who believe that technology's future development should be controlled, and that it may already have gone too far, especially in areas such as the use of energy - something which has the potential to permanently harm our environment. Alec Broers argues that although we need to understand such dangers, and use technology wisely, it can improve our lives - that we must look to technology to solve many of the problems that threaten our planet. Included here are the complete lectures plus a new introduction and conclusion.

Introduction
Lecture 1. The triumph of technology
Lecture 2. Collaboration
Lecture 3. Managing innovation
Lecture 4. Nanotechnology and nanoscience
Lecture 5. Risk and responsibility
By way of conclusion.

Subject Areas: History of engineering & technology [TBX], Nanotechnology [TBN], Technology: general issues [TB], Politics & government [JP], Society & social sciences [J]