天工开物》是中国古代一部综合性的科学技术著作，也是世界上第一部关于农业和手工业生产的综合性著作，被欧洲学者称为“技术的百科全书”。它对中国古代的各项技术进行了系统地总结，构成了一个完整的科学技术体系。对农业方面的丰富经验进行了总结，全面反映了工艺技术的成就。书中记述的许多生产技术，一直沿用到近代。
作者是明朝宋应星。初刊于明崇祯十年（1637年）。全书分为上、中、下三篇共十八卷，描绘了一百三十多项生产技术和工具的名称、形状、工序。
这部举世闻名的奇书，在它出版之后的二百多年间，却几乎不为国人所知，乾隆时所修的《四库全书》对它摒弃不顾，而除了官修的《授时通考》之外，此间的学者包括那些顶级的国学大师，也从来就没在自己的著作中引用过它的一个字。奇怪的是，它在东邻日本和朝鲜却被奉为宝笈，接着欧洲也从日本得到了它的日本刻本，然后开始出现它的多种译本，并视为中国科技史的小百科全书。而中国再次单独重印此书，即已经是二百多年后的二十世纪的事了。让人感到奇怪的是，现存《天工开物》的十几个版本中，外国人的却占了大多数，这在中国古籍中大约是太少见了。这部让我们国人引为豪的名著，对大多数人来说还只是熟于耳闻而鲜于目睹。现在看来，如果只把《天工开物》看成中国科技史的名著，显然是不够的，它同时也是中国文化史、思想史的名著。书中说的是“开物”，却贯穿着中国的传统文化，而其中的一切正是中华民族博大精深的文明基础。我们可以向读者承诺，如果把此书通读一遍，稍加深思，就一定会对中华文明的精髓多一层体验。

After 1776, the former American colonies began to reimagine themselves as a unified, self-created community. Technologies had an important role in the resulting national narratives, and a few technologies assumed particular prominence. Among these were the axe, the mill, the canal, the railroad, and the irrigation dam. In this book David Nye explores the stories that clustered around these technologies. In doing so, he rediscovers an American story of origins, with America conceived as a second creation built in harmony with God's first creation.While mainstream Americans constructed technological foundation stories to explain their place in the New World, however, marginalized groups told other stories of destruction and loss. Native Americans protested the loss of their forests, fishermen resisted the construction of dams, and early environmentalists feared the exhaustionof resources. A water mill could be viewed as the kernel of a new community or as a new way to exploit labor. If passengers comprehended railways as part of a larger narrative about American expansion and progress, many farmers attacked railroad land grants. To explore these contradictions, Nye devotes alternating chapters to narratives of second creation and to narratives of those who rejected it.Nye draws on popular literature, speeches, advertisements, paintings, and many other media to create a history of American foundation stories. He shows how these stories were revised periodically, as social and economic conditions changed, without ever erasing the earlier stories entirely. The image of the isolated frontier family carving a homestead out of the wilderness with an axe persists to this day, alongside later images and narratives. In the book's conclusion, Nye considers the relation between these earlier stories and such later American developments as the conservation movement, narratives of environmental recovery, and the idealization of wilderness.

《1024》：国内第一本专注于科技文化的mook。
本期创刊号将目光定焦在“人与机器”这个超热点领域。
如果把机器获得思维能力看作是一种进化，
那人类具备不朽之躯同样也是一种进化。
这是一个野心勃勃但又充满不确定性的未来。
在我们一厢情愿地猜测机器将在不远的将来赶超自己而惶惶不可终日时，人类其实还有一个机会——变得更像机器。这并非科幻小说，而是正在发生的现实。人类创造机器的初衷难道不就是为了弥补自身的不足？如果把机器获得思维能力看作是一种进化，那人类具备不坏之躯同样也是一种进化。这是一个野心勃勃但又充满不确定性的未来。八篇专题文章将解析在共同进化的漫长道路上，人与机器如何成为对方的投射，以及由此衍生出的永恒话题——伦理与道德的困境。
专栏文章中，“工具”独具匠心。它分为三个小部分：阐述人与工具的联系、具体工具的展示，以及使用工具制作，旨在凸显科技时代人和工具的新关系。“未来”则是由恒金基金会独家授权的SALT演讲，来自历史学家与未来学家的一次机锋。“遗产”将讲述《全球概览》近半个世纪前不可思议的出版故事，重现一次反主流文化之旅。
本期的收尾之作献给不久前去世的恩格尔巴特。感谢他留下的不朽遗产。愿他安息。
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在本书中，作者对中国互联网的历史做了一次突破性的研究，细致又全面地观察了中国互联网对于国家和社会的影响，发现互联网给中国的社会—政治变革带来了新的动力。政府权力和社会力量在以互联网为媒介的公共领域中转换。
从大量的数据梳理和事实分析中，作者得出了四重的研究结论。首先，互联网给政府和社会都增加了权力。互联网在促进政治自由化中扮演了重要的角色，使政府更加开放、透明和负责任。第二，互联网产生了大量的影响，高度分散和超越了政府权力的限度。第三，互联网为政府和社会彼此间的契约和分离创造了一个新的基础结构。第四，互联网创造了一种政府和社会的回归关系。政府和社会之间在互联网上相互作用，最终重塑了政府和社会。

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
An American Library Association Notable Book
Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. With The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.
Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. Maybe it's the medication that Alfred takes for his Parkinson's disease, or maybe it's his negative attitude, but he spends his days brooding in the basement and committing shadowy, unspeakable acts. More and more often, he doesn't seem to understand a word Enid says.
Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid's children. Her older son, Gary, a banker in Philadelphia, has turned cruel and materialistic and is trying to force his parents out of their old house and into a tiny apartment. The middle child, Chip, has suddenly and for no good reason quit his exciting job as a professor at D------ College and moved to New York City, where he seems to be pursuing a "transgressive" lifestyle and writing some sort of screenplay. Meanwhile the baby of the family, Denise, has escaped her disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man--or so Gary hints.
Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband's growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs.

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology.
This new edition features an introduction by John Bellamy Foster that sets the work in historical and theoretical context, as well as two rare articles by Braverman, "The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century" (1975) and "Two Comments" (1976), that add much to our understanding of the book.

During the nineteenth century, the roughest but most important ocean passage in the world lay between Britain and the United States. Bridging the Atlantic Ocean by steamship was a defining, remarkable feat of the era. Over time, Atlantic steamships became the largest, most complex machines yet devised. They created a new transatlantic world of commerce and travel, reconciling former Anglo-American enemies and bringing millions of emigrants who transformed the United States. In Transatlantic , the experience of crossing the Atlantic is re-created in stunning detail from the varied perspectives of first class, steerage, officers, and crew. The dynamic evolution of the Atlantic steamer is traced from Brunel's Great Western of 1838 to Cunard's Mauretania of 1907, the greatest steamship ever built.

In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor, and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical.
With a small band of allies they formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham (so called because it met at each full moon) and kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men built canals; launched balloons; named plants, gases, and minerals; changed the face of England and the china in its drawing rooms; and plotted to revolutionize its soul.
Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men. It echoes to the thud of pistons and the wheeze and snort of engines and brings to life the tradesmen, artisans, and tycoons who shaped and fired the modern age.

The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful perspective. He identifies four major threads that run throughout all of computing's technological development: digitization--the coding of information, computation, and control in binary form, ones and zeros; the convergence of multiple streams of techniques, devices, and machines, yielding more than the sum of their parts; the steady advance of electronic technology, as characterized famously by "Moore's Law"; and the human-machine interface. Ceruzzi guides us through computing history, telling how a Bell Labs mathematician coined the word "digital" in 1942 (to describe a high-speed method of calculating used in anti-aircraft devices), and recounting the development of the punch card (for use in the 1890 U.S. Census). He describes the ENIAC, built for scientific and military applications; the UNIVAC, the first general purpose computer; and ARPANET, the Internet's precursor. Ceruzzi's account traces the world-changing evolution of the computer from a room-size ensemble of machinery to a "minicomputer" to a desktop computer to a pocket-sized smart phone. He describes the development of the silicon chip, which could store ever-increasing amounts of data and enabled ever-decreasing device size. He visits that hotbed of innovation, Silicon Valley, and brings the story up to the present with the Internet, the World Wide Web, and social networking.

Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the Microchip, Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful individual but also the vibrant interplay of technology, business, money, politics, and culture that defines Silicon Valley. Here is the life of a high-tech industry giant. The co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, Noyce co-invented the integrated circuit, the electronic heart of every modern computer, automobile, cellular telephone, advanced weapon, and video game. With access to never-before-seen documents, Berlin paints a fascinating portrait of Noyce: an ambitious and intensely competitive multimillionaire who exuded a "just folks" sort of charm, a Midwestern preacher's son who rejected organized religion but would counsel his employees to "go off and do something wonderful," a man who never looked back and sometimes paid a price for it. In addition, this vivid narrative sheds light on Noyce's friends and associates, including some of the best-known managers, venture capitalists, and creative minds in Silicon Valley. Berlin draws upon interviews with dozens of key players in modern American business--including Andy Grove, Steve Jobs, Gordon Moore, and Warren Buffett; their recollections of Noyce give readers a privileged, first-hand look inside the dynamic world of high-tech entrepreneurship. A modern American success story, The Man Behind the Microchip illuminates the triumphs and setbacks of one of the most important inventors and entrepreneurs of our time.

我作为常务主编，与查尔斯・辛格(Chales Singer)、DJ．霍姆亚德(E. J. Holmyard)和A-R-霍尔(A. R. Hall)一起与这部著作发生关系，至今已有35年了。这部著作是按照英国一家领先的化学公司―帝国化学工业有限公司（简称ICI）――赞助的一项雄心勃勃的计划，由牛津大学出版社出版的。其最初构思为5卷本，旨在最宽泛的意义上囊括从人类文明发端至19世纪末的整个技术史。继而，作为唯一的主编，我负责 1978年出版的涵盖1900-1950年的后续两卷本的工作。牛津大学出版社作为学术著作的出版者，把这两卷本看作它成立500周年庆典的一部分。最后，包括整部著作的综合索引的最后一卷第皿卷于1984年问世。可见，这部《技术史》占据了我的大部分工作生涯。就我而言，对我在过去岁月里观察到的一些变化进行反思也许并无不妥。
帝国化学工业有限公司对于这部厚重之作头5卷的支持，是具有卓识远见的赞助的一例。作为一家国际性的、以科学为基础的公司，它的活动是过去许多代人的成就促成的。它开始有些意外地意识到，一旦产生了需求，居然没有一本能供学者们在进行更专业的工作之前作为首选参考书的综合技术史。这部《技术史》恰如其分地用事实填补了这个空白，以至于除去一例之外，没有一部堪与其媲美的替代性著作出版过，这个例外就是李约瑟（Joseph Needham）的不朽之作《中国的科学与文明》（Science and Civilisation in China），它向西方和东方学者同样揭示了新的世界。虽然这部书的第一卷在1954年问世，却仍然未完成，不过已经胜利在望了。极其遗憾的是，原来的5卷《技术史》完成之前，很少有这类发人深思的著作可以援用。也许我们将会在21世纪看到东西方的贡献都整合在其中的一部全球视野的技术史。然而必须承认，这样一种可能性不单单是学术上的，欲使此类计划得以成功，管理人员的素养也是至关重要的。作为这部及其他著作的主编，我始终明白在多大的程度上应归于作者们，正是他们贡献了自己的专业知识来创作一个个章节。但是，像音乐家一样，他们的努力之所以能够创造出和谐的音乐，完全是建立在他们齐心协力的基础上的。
《技术史》这部著作分两批问世的原因曾招致人们的评论。当1950年着手筹划这部书时，在时间上，世纪的更替似乎剔罗辑上的终点。早年的经验主义为牛顿（Newton）的物理学、拉瓦锡（Lavosier）和道尔顿（Dalton）的新化学及工业革命所遵循。但是，19世纪后半叶不断有新的现象被发现（尤其在电学领域内），这种本质上机械的经典观点是不合时宜的。20世纪伊始，人们看到相对论的出现，随后不久是量子力学的创立。那时，人们发觉这不仅说明了难以与早期的研究相调和的态度变化，而且还要求向普通的读者引进难以掌握的艰深的理论概念。然而到1970年，局面有了一些改观。1945年原子弹戏剧性的突然出现，促使公众注意到原子物理中产生的理论和实用两方面的重大发展，并且新一代的读者已然成长起来，他们所受的教育至少对于这些新的发展给予了关注。因此，把《技术史》从1900年推进到1950年是与时俱进的。意味深长的是，在保持实质上同等研究水平的条件下，这半个世纪需要两整卷的篇幅，而至1900年的技术史则有5卷就够了。自1950年以来，技术演进的步伐进一步加快了，预期补充的两卷将把《技术史》延伸至今。可以想见，不仅对于当时存在的各个领域的重大进展，而且在微电子和计算机、遗传工程和生物技术、空间探索和研究、核动力、机器人等新领域，人们都必定会发现新的天地。
尽管这部《技术史》迄今未遇到竞争对手，它的一个主要目的是成功的，即作为更细致的研究的基础，它提供了一份易于了解的文献来源，从而在技术史方面激起了人们的兴趣。有趣的是，这些研究已经显示出地域上的区分。在英国和欧洲其他大部分地方，在技术上注重的是1922年建立的纽科门学会传统―所谓的具体细节进路。社会、政治和经济等因素的重要性得到充分的认识，但却是与技术创新直接相关的。然而在美国，近30年来，人们认为社会、政治和经济这些因素具有压倒一切的重要性；毫无疑问，其部分原因是许多美国的科技史学家有着大学文科的背景和少许的工艺知识。然而，说得更严重些，在美国，20世纪的技术被广泛地看作美国的技术的同义语，却把世界其余地方的贡献大大抹煞了。值得高兴的是近一二年内有证据表明，年轻一代的美国技术史学家正在质疑这种内省的、狭隘的态度，而提倡一种更开明的研究方法。
这部《技术史》长期以来一直是标准的参考书，无疑反映了这样的事实：英语已经变成世界上最广泛接受的语言。此外，它的流传因为日文版、意大利文版的出现而增加了。我与T"K-德里（T. K. Derry）在1960年出版的《技术史》头5卷节本《技术简史》（A Short History of Technology），已经用这些文字和西班牙文、荷兰文面世。很荣幸，中国的科技史学家们现在认为应当把这部《技术史》译成他们自己的文字。我十分清楚这需要巨大的工作量，因此我感谢所有为此勇于合作的人。我衷心地希望，这部书在他们这个有着几千年不断的技术创新史的国家中所激发起的研究，将是无可匹敌的。