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# The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900

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## Customer Reviews

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    A collection of facts that don't really come together
  

*by T***H on Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2012*

This book presents a large assortment of facts which support some of my favourite arguments, yet aren't really brought together to say anything conclusive. So I give it an intermediate rating, boosted partly by being an easy read, even while frustrated that it doesn't really get anywhere. Are we supposed to be surprised that historical memory is uneven, subject to political whim and fashion? Is the author concerned that innovators gain disproportionate hero status? Surely there is more cause for concern with entertainers and sports stars, let alone those whose only realised motivation is accumulation of money. Maybe a good part of my annoyance came from his trying to measure the importance of innovation primarily in terms of impact on gross economic measures.At one level, I'm happy to point out how many areas of technology are stagnating or regressing after earlier prominence, far from converging on some singularity. At another, the author underplays the inescapable rise of information and communications technologies (ICT) still tracking Moore's Law and more so ICT's influence in other areas where it changes how things are done. Sure there are false promises, but even some of those can change how we thing about things. My big lesson in the pervasive influence of ICT came 20 years ago when a survey form about technologies in higher education came in from a prominent laboratory equipment maker incredulously claiming they weren't a technology business. While the author seems to want to treat ICT as yet another overplayed innovation and I'd like to agree, by not addressing its perceived ubiquity he fails to nail it.

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    The disruptive effect of the old reappearing
  

*by O***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2018*

A long overdue work that addresses a problem first identified by Toffler when studying societies at different levels of development. Evolving technology and practices produce a loss of understanding and expertise of that what was abandoned, creating downstream disruptive effects when the old reappears, for instance in a commercial, political or military clash between societies or groups using the previous versus the contemporary technology or practice. This book works through a plethora of examples and case studies.

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    A different viewpoint of what is really important in 'technology'
  

*by D***L on Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2018*

This book tends to get excited about things but not full follow through as to why you should. However, it is rather good and its unfashionable 'Rest of World' (not USA) approach to the topic of 'technology' is refreshing. I particularly like the discussion about how in the 20th Century warships may have the same hull but were constantly 'refitted' to match the changes in navy requirements. The discussion on "maintenance', the hugely expensive 'long tail' on many unwise capital purchases was excellent.

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