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220709s2023 maua e b 001 0 eng |
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2022019899 |
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0262048051 |
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9780262048057 |
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DLC |
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eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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MiTN |
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pcc |
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T15 |
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.S63 2023 |
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600 |
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23/eng/20220909 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
600 Smil |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Smil, Vaclav, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Invention and innovation : |
| Remainder of title |
a brief history of hype and failure / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Vaclav Smil. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Brief history of hype and failure. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
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The MIT Press, |
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[2023] |
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©2023. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
219 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
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23 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Inventions and innovations : a long history and modern infatuation -- Inventions that turned from welcome to undesirable. Leaded gasoline -- DDT -- Chlorofluorocarbons -- Inventions that were to dominate, and do not. Airships -- Nuclear fission -- Supersonic flight -- Inventions that we keep waiting for. Travel in vacuum (hyperloop) -- Nitrogen-fixing cereals -- Nuclear fusion -- Techno-optimism, exaggerations and realistic expectations. Breakthroughs that are not -- Myth of ever-faster innovations -- What we need most. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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"The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author-a favorite of Bill Gates-pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI. He reminds us that even after we go quite far along the invention-development-application trajectory, we may never get anything real to deploy. Or worse, even after we have succeeded by introducing an invention, its future may be marked by underperformance, disappointment, demise, or outright harm. Drawing on his vast breadth of scientific and historical knowledge, Smil explains the difference between invention and innovation, and looks not only at inventions that failed to dominate as promised (such as the airship, nuclear fission, and supersonic flight), but also at those that turned disastrous (leaded gasoline, DDT, and chlorofluorocarbons). And finally, most importantly, he offers a 'wish list' of inventions that we most urgently need to confront the staggering challenges of the twenty-first century. Filled with engaging examples and pragmatic approaches, this book is a sobering account of the folly that so often attends human ingenuity-and how we can, and must, better align our expectations with reality." --publisher's website. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Errors |
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History. |
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Inventions |
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Defects |
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History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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New products |
| General subdivision |
History. |
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System failures (Engineering) |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Technological forecasting. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
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| Relationship information |
Online version: |
| Main entry heading |
Smil, Vaclav. |
| Title |
Inventions and innovations |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2023 |
| International Standard Book Number |
9780262374255 |
| Record control number |
(DLC) 2022019900. |