Inventing Accuracy Paperback by Donald MacKenzie

Product Details

• Publisher: The MIT Press (1993-01-29)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 480 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780262631471
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

"Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern."

Donald MacKenzie follows one line of technology—strategic ballistic missile guidance through a succession of weapons systems to reveal the workings of a world that is neither awesome nor unstoppable. He uncovers the parameters, the pressures, and the politics that make up the complex social construction of an equally complex technology.

About the Author

Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology (Personal Chair) at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Inventing Accuracy (1990), Knowing Machines (1996), and Mechanizing Proof (2001), all published by the MIT Press. Portions of An Engine, not a Camera won the Viviana A. Zelizer Prize in economic sociology from the American Sociological Association.