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This updated second edition of Global Technological Change reconsiders how we make and use technology in the twenty-first century. With human-centered ""soft technology"" driving machine-based ""hard technology"" in ever more complex ways, Zhouying Jin provides an understanding of the human dimension of technological advancement. Through a theoretical framework that incorporates elements of both Eastern and Western philosophy, she offers insight into the dynamic between the two as it relates to a variety of technological innovation. More relevant than ever, Global Technological Change continues to challenge assumptions about technology and the gap between the developed and developing countries in the twenty-first century.

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Jin's new book, Global Technological Change , is a powerful reconceptualization of technological options and innovation management, which can help steer societies in assessing technologies for the twenty-first century. As Jin correctly points out, in emerging knowledge societies, the 'soft' technologies are drivers of the 'hard' technologies. . . . This book is a major intellectual advance that can help clarify human choices for decades to come. --Hazel Henderson, US Office of Technology Assessment<br><br>

Jin's new book, Global Technological Change, is a powerful reconceptualization of technological options and innovation management, which can help steer societies in assessing technologies for the twenty-first century. As Jin correctly points out, in emerging knowledge societies, the 'soft' technologies are drivers of the 'hard' technologies. . . . This book is a major intellectual advance that can help clarify human choices for decades to come. --Hazel Henderson, US Office of Technology Assessment

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Zhouying JIN is a senior researcher and professor, Institute of Quanti-Econoics & Techno-Economics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Director, Center for Technology Innovation and Strategy Studies(CTISS) of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She also is president and founder for the Beijng Academy of Soft Technology.

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