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288 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780743200080
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Unlike Perry Mason, James Burke does not try to assemble watertight (if convoluted) cases. His essays in the history of technology are more like random walks, paeans to serendipity. In The Knowledge Web Burke attempted to duplicate on paper the fe...
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288 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780743200080
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Unlike Perry Mason, James Burke does not try to assemble watertight (if convoluted) cases. His essays in the history of technology are more like random walks, paeans to serendipity. In The Knowledge Web Burke attempted to duplicate on paper the fe...