The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves

W. Brian Arthur's book on what technology is and how it evolves. The companion cites it, with Nelson and Winter, for the point that in technology firms search and markets select, so variation is guided rather than blind. It is a contrast case for sighted variation (P4), in which agent lineages generate variation from their own copyable machine reasoning.

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion §6.1)

Used for

P4P4 (contrast case)

Strand

Evolution & heredity · Cultural, technological & creative evolution

Cite

@book{arthur2009nature,
  title = {The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves},
  author = {W. Brian Arthur},
  year = {2009},
  publisher = {Free Press (New York)},
}