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Accidental Futures

Accidental Futures

J WELLS

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J WELLS
Año de edición:
2025
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Historia general y mundial
ISBN:
9798232830014
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Everyday life is filled with technologies that were never meant to last.Accidental Futures explores true historical cases where wartime necessity and systemic pressure produced solutions that escaped their original mission. Penicillin, microwave ovens, duct tape, Super Glue, blood banking, synthetic materials, and sensing technologies all began as responses to immediate crisis rather than long-term planning.These stories reveal how urgency favors speed over perfection, and how systems built under pressure often persist long after the emergency ends. What begins as improvisation becomes infrastructure.This book examines the quiet path from failure to normality, and how unintended outcomes shape modern life more than deliberate design.

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