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The BCA logo. Book Club Associates (BCA) was a mail-order and online book selling company in the United Kingdom.It came to dominate the mail-order book-club business in the U.K. in the 1970s and 1980s through extensive advertising in Sunday newspaper colour supplements and elsewhere, and became the largest mail-order bookseller in the U.K.
The importance of stone tools, circa 2.5 million years ago, is considered fundamental in the human development in the hunting hypothesis. [citation needed]Primatologist, Richard Wrangham, theorizes that the control of fire by early humans and the associated development of cooking was the spark that radically changed human evolution. [2]
Sociotechnology (short for "social technology") is the study of processes on the intersection of society and technology. [1] Vojinović and Abbott define it as "the study of processes in which the social and the technical are indivisibly combined". [2]
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Theories of technological change and innovation attempt to explain the factors that shape technological innovation as well as the impact of technology on society and culture. Some of the most contemporary theories of technological change reject two of the previous views: the linear model of technological innovation and other, the technological ...
A communications artifact (Rugby Aerial Tuning Inductor) at the Science Museum, London, UK . Science and technology studies (STS) or science, technology, and society is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts.
Media Technology and Society: A History from the Telegraph to the Internet is a 1998 book by Brian Winston. [1] The book's central thesis is that technology , rather than developing in relatively discontinuous revolutions, evolves as part of a larger evolutionary pattern. [ 2 ]
Circuit rider (technology) Civic application; Coding it Forward; Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence; Community technology; The Cool Stuff Collective; Cosmic Call; Crisis camp; Critical code studies; Criticism of technology; Crowdfunding; Cultural lag; Current (financial services company) Cute cat theory of digital activism; Cyber ...