6/30/2023 0 Comments The way things work now reviewFor years, adults have extended the promise of total knowledge to students who apply themselves to understanding physical technologies like the steam engine, or the airplane. As the complexity scientist Samuel Arbesman writes in his recent book Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension, the intricacy of modern technologies-the code behind the guidance system used to land planes-has made them opaque, even to people whose job it is to work with them. How does the Macaulay approach translate to the unseeable? The Way Things Work Now is longer than its predecessors it has a whole new section on all things digital. Now Macaulay has updated The Way Things Work, which was first published in 1988 and revised in 1998. In addition to co-writing The Way Things Work with Neil Ardley, Macaulay has also published a primer on the human body ( The Way We Work) as well as shorter books on individual masterworks of human engineering ( books about cathedrals, pyramids, toilets). Macaulay’s school-age readers have fewer and fewer everyday chances to witness the technologies of their world in motion.
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