Cumulative culture -- the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations -- allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But, it is unclear ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, has discovered that ...

Understanding the lumpy pattern of technological evolution is essential for organizations that want to make informed decisions about when to invest in and adopt new technologies. In the early 20th ...

Two books on Chinese writing illustrate how tumultuous technological evolution can be. Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong Kong, at a desk in Taiwan, in the ...

In the labyrinth of modern society, where technological advancement seems to race ahead at an unprecedented pace, we find ourselves grappling for directions that are both alluring and alarming. The ...