Marc H. Meyer
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195180862
- eISBN:
- 9780199851270
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195180862.003.0008
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
An overall product or service concept is the composite of more specific design concepts that serve specific needs that are targeted for implementation within the major subsystems of the product or ...
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An overall product or service concept is the composite of more specific design concepts that serve specific needs that are targeted for implementation within the major subsystems of the product or service. This chapter looks at the process of implementing these technical solutions. The ability of companies to leverage their core technologies to new market applications rests on the increasing modularity in the design and implementation of technology. The best way to leverage technologies for new market applications begins with the development of a robust, modular architecture composed of subsystems, each of which has a specific purpose. The chapter considers how this works for physical products first, and then extends the thinking to software systems and services. The product line architecture shows the major subsystems common to a closely related set of products, a product family. The product line architecture also indicates how and where specific customizations can be performed to tailor products for specific users and uses.Less
An overall product or service concept is the composite of more specific design concepts that serve specific needs that are targeted for implementation within the major subsystems of the product or service. This chapter looks at the process of implementing these technical solutions. The ability of companies to leverage their core technologies to new market applications rests on the increasing modularity in the design and implementation of technology. The best way to leverage technologies for new market applications begins with the development of a robust, modular architecture composed of subsystems, each of which has a specific purpose. The chapter considers how this works for physical products first, and then extends the thinking to software systems and services. The product line architecture shows the major subsystems common to a closely related set of products, a product family. The product line architecture also indicates how and where specific customizations can be performed to tailor products for specific users and uses.
James Cole
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190204112
- eISBN:
- 9780190204136
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190204112.003.0008
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter aims to bring the evolution of behavioral complexity and language together through the theoretical perspective of the identity model, which provides a clear link between the behavioral ...
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This chapter aims to bring the evolution of behavioral complexity and language together through the theoretical perspective of the identity model, which provides a clear link between the behavioral outputs of past hominins and a measure of their cognitive potential. The identity model proposes that in order for material culture to be imbued with symbolic social meaning, not only is a theory of mind (or second-order intentionality) essential, but it must be superseded by a third-order of intentionality at a minimum. The author uses a case study in the British Acheulean in order to assess the cognitive potential of Pleistocene hominins as predicted by the social brain hypothesis. As a result, the author proposes that the evidence for third-order intentionality within the archaeological record at a broad species-level of behavior may actually reside with those hominins that engage with prepared-core technology and composite tool manufacture rather than within the Acheulean.Less
This chapter aims to bring the evolution of behavioral complexity and language together through the theoretical perspective of the identity model, which provides a clear link between the behavioral outputs of past hominins and a measure of their cognitive potential. The identity model proposes that in order for material culture to be imbued with symbolic social meaning, not only is a theory of mind (or second-order intentionality) essential, but it must be superseded by a third-order of intentionality at a minimum. The author uses a case study in the British Acheulean in order to assess the cognitive potential of Pleistocene hominins as predicted by the social brain hypothesis. As a result, the author proposes that the evidence for third-order intentionality within the archaeological record at a broad species-level of behavior may actually reside with those hominins that engage with prepared-core technology and composite tool manufacture rather than within the Acheulean.
Stephanie Ricker Schulte
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814708668
- eISBN:
- 9780814788684
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814708668.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world. It offered users new ways ...
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In the 1980s and 1990s, the Internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world. It offered users new ways to relate to one another, to share their lives, and to spend their time—shopping, working, learning, and even taking political or social action. Policymakers and news media attempted—and often struggled—to make sense of the emergence and expansion of this new technology. They imagined the Internet in conflicting terms: as a toy for teenagers, a national security threat, a new democratic frontier, an information superhighway, a virtual reality, and a framework for promoting globalization and revolution. This book maintains that contested concepts had material consequences and helped shape not just our sense of the Internet, but the development of the technology itself. It focuses on how people imagine and relate to technology, delving into the political and cultural debates that produced the Internet as a core technology able to revise economics, politics, and culture, as well as to alter lived experience. The book illustrates the conflicting and indirect ways in which culture and policy combined to produce this transformative technology.Less
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world. It offered users new ways to relate to one another, to share their lives, and to spend their time—shopping, working, learning, and even taking political or social action. Policymakers and news media attempted—and often struggled—to make sense of the emergence and expansion of this new technology. They imagined the Internet in conflicting terms: as a toy for teenagers, a national security threat, a new democratic frontier, an information superhighway, a virtual reality, and a framework for promoting globalization and revolution. This book maintains that contested concepts had material consequences and helped shape not just our sense of the Internet, but the development of the technology itself. It focuses on how people imagine and relate to technology, delving into the political and cultural debates that produced the Internet as a core technology able to revise economics, politics, and culture, as well as to alter lived experience. The book illustrates the conflicting and indirect ways in which culture and policy combined to produce this transformative technology.
