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The charge of technology

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  • David Edgerton

    (David Edgerton is at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. He is the author of The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. d.edgerton@imperial.ac.uk)

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Science policies based on techno-nationalist thinking and fantasies about the past technological revolutions will get us nowhere fast, says David Edgerton.

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  • David Edgerton, 2008. "The charge of technology," Nature, Nature, vol. 455(7216), pages 1030-1031, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:455:y:2008:i:7216:d:10.1038_4551030a
    DOI: 10.1038/4551030a
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    2. Leydesdorff, Loet & Wagner, Caroline, 2009. "Macro-level indicators of the relations between research funding and research output," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 3(4), pages 353-362.
    3. Paul Peeters & Martin Landré, 2011. "The Emerging Global Tourism Geography—An Environmental Sustainability Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 4(1), pages 1-30, December.

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