Chapter 16. WHEN 1 + 1 = 3

JAMES BURKE

James Burke has produced and hosted television series for the BBC and others on the history of science and technology for thirty years. He has received the Royal Television Society's Gold Medal and an Emmy nomination. The author of eight best-selling books, he writes a monthly column in Scientific American and is a frequent lecturer at corporations and universities.

As the pace of technological innovation and its social consequences have quickened over the centuries, managing change has presented a growing challenge for several reasons: the basically serendipitous process of innovation, our view of knowledge (what it is, who gets it), and above all the increasingly interactive nature of the community. This ...

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