Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World - Softcover

Hughes, Thomas P. P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679739386 ISBN 13: 9780679739388

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000

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The author shows how the socalled "militaryindustrial complex" succeeded in revolutionizing aerospace, computers, and communications by changing how technology was used, understood, and managed in business, industry, and government. Reprint.

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insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The Economist

Rescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world.  Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management styles.  The first use of computers to run systems was developed for the SAGE air defense project.  The Atlas missile project was so complicated it required the development of systems engineering in order to complete it.  The Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project tested systems engineering in the complex crucible of a large scale civilian roadway.  And finally, the origins of the Internet fostered the collegial management style that later would take over Silicon Valley and define the modern computer industry.  With keen insight, Hughes te

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0679739386
• ISBN 13: 9780679739388
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384