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092			_a600 Smil
100	1		_aSmil, Vaclav,
245	1	0	_aInvention and innovation : _ba brief history of hype and failure / _cVaclav Smil.
246	3	0	_aBrief history of hype and failure.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe MIT Press, _c[2023]
260			_c©2023.
300			_a219 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aInventions 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			_a"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	_aErrors _xHistory.
650		0	_aInventions _xDefects _xHistory.
650		0	_aNew products _xHistory.
650		0	_aSystem failures (Engineering) _xHistory.
650		0	_aTechnological forecasting.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aSmil, Vaclav. _tInventions and innovations _dCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2023 _z9780262374255 _w(DLC) 2022019900.
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