Juma, Calestous,

Innovation and its enemies : why people resist new technologies / Calestous Juma. - First edition. - xii, 416 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gales of creative destruction -- Brewing trouble: coffee -- Stop the presses: printing the Qur'an -- Smear campaigns: margarine -- Gaining traction: farm mechanization -- Charged arguments: electricity -- Cool reception: refrigerated foods -- Facing the music: recorded sound -- Taking root: genetically modified crops -- Swimming against the current: transgenic salmon -- Oiling the wheels of novelty.

9780190467036 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2015043807


Technological innovations--History.
Technology and civilization.
Technology--Social aspects.

HC79.T4 / J8178 2016

338.064 JUM / JUM