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Found 3 from your keywords: subject="Engineering design."
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In the bubble : Designing in a complex world
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Thackara, John.

"We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World." "In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now - not i…

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0262201577
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1 online resource (ix, 321 pages) : illustrations
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Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet
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Coyne, Richard.

Title from title screen."The network economy presents itself in the transactions of electronic commerce, finance, business, and communications. The network economy is also a social condition of discontinuity, indefinite limits, and in-between spaces. In Cornucopia Limited, Richard Coyne uses the liminality of design - its uneasy position between creativity and commerce - to explore the network …

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9780262255950
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1 online resource (x, 284 pages)
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Flexibility in engineering design
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De Neufville, Richard,Scholtes, Stefan.

Project teams can improve results by recognizing that the future is inevitably uncertain and that by creating flexible designs they can adapt to eventualities. This approach enables them to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid harmful losses. Designers of complex, long-lasting projects--such as communication networks, power plants, or hospitals--must learn to abandon fixed specificatio…

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9781613444115
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1 online resource (xvi, 293 pages) :illustrations.
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