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ENERGY-SUBSTRATE SCALING: A UNIFIED THEORY OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS & DESCENT (Energy-Substrate Scaling: A Unified Theory of Complexity, Band 1) - Softcover

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Boyd, JS

 
9798241071248: ENERGY-SUBSTRATE SCALING: A UNIFIED THEORY OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS & DESCENT (Energy-Substrate Scaling: A Unified Theory of Complexity, Band 1)
Softcover
ISBN 13: 9798241071248
Verlag: Independently published, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Energy-Substrate Scaling proposes a unified theory of technological progress, arguing that breakthroughs, from steam engines to AI, remain inert until paired with an energy substrate capable of sustaining them. History’s decisive transitions (agrarian → industrial, fossil → post-carbon) were not driven by invention alone, but by energy surpluses meeting critical EROI thresholds.

The book examines:

  • Novelty, Synergy, Transformation – Why some technologies scale (steam + coal) while others fail (Hero’s aeolipile)
  • Collapse as Energy Descent – How Rome and Ming China unraveled when their energy substrates degraded
  • Future Dilemmas – Why AI, quantum computing, and fusion face thermodynamic limits in a declining-EROI world

By integrating anthropology, complexity theory, and energy economics, this framework offers a lens for predicting which technologies will thrive—and which are doomed by energy realities.

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Verlag
Independently published
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 13 
9798241071248
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
309
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