Innovation and its enemies : why people resist new technologies / Calestous Juma.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Juma, Calestous (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Technological innovations > History.
Technology and civilization.
Technology > Social aspects.
Technological innovations.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 416 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.