Technology and the Growth of Civilization

• Main Authors: Genta, Giancarlo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Riberi, Paolo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Popular Science,
• Subjects: History.; Philosophy.; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Technology-History.; Popular Science in History.; Philosophy of Technology.; Science and Technology Studies.; History of Technology.

Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans. From domesticated wheat fields to nuclear power plants and spacecraft, everything we see and interact with has in some way been changed by the presence of our species, starting from the Neolithic era so many centuries ago. This...