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The essential title of this book, Techne n, refers to the conviction of the author that technology develops in a punctuated, evolutionary manner in subsequent civilization eras, as well as to the definition of technology proper as techne , the art of creating tools characteristic of a given civilization era.
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Wierzbicki, A.P. (2015). Final Conclusions. In: Technen: Elements of Recent History of Information Technologies with Epistemological Conclusions. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 71. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09033-7_15
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