New technologies tend to spread slowly and unevenly through time and place, gradually layering onto already existing technologies: more work goes into maintaining existing systems than replacing them with new ones. In this presentation for the World Economic Forum, W. Patrick McCray, Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites us to step away from a focus on the latest breakthroughs and consider other perspectives on the fourth industrial revolution.
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19 фев 2016
