The Acceleration of Cultural Change
From Ancestors to Algorithms
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
21 May 2024
Summary
From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered differences resulting from mate selection. But we now find ourselves binge-viewing, texting while driving, and playing Minecraft. Only the collective acceleration of cultural and technological evolution explains this development. The evolutionary psychology of individuals—the drive for “food and sex”—explains s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551977 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262551977 |
| Author: | R. Alexander Bentley, Michael J. O'Brien, John Maeda |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 21 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm |
| Series: | Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life |
About The Author
R. Alexander Bentley
R. Alexander Bentley is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee and coauthor of I’ll Have What She’s Having- Mapping Social Behavior and The Acceleration of Cultural Change- From Ancestors to Algorithms.
Michael J. O’Brien is Provost and Professor of History at Texas A&M University-San Antonio and the coauthor of I’ll Have What She’s Having- Mapping Social Behavior and The Acceleration of Cultural Change- From Ancestors to Algorithms.
An internationally recognized leader at the intersection of design and technology, John Maeda is Executive Vice President/Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient. He was the 16th President of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is the author of Design by Numbers, The Laws of Simplicity, and Redesigning Leadership.
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