Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology Book

Explores how the evolution or even the realization of a technology is contingent on social factors that are often uncontrollable and unrelated to the technology itself. Uses the development of the nuclear power industry as a backdrop for all of this, while using other examples from other fields of technology to expand on or illustrate points. Pretty good book. The argument is interesting, but felt mostly like something I already knew. Perhaps when this was written it was much more novel, but the ideas in it seem to have seeped into enough other works that I'd already picked them up.