Standards [electronic resource]
Jeffrey Pomerantz2025
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An engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes
the built and digital environments of the modern world.
Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearly all objects
that surround us in the modern world. In Standards, Jeffrey Pomerantz and Jason
Griffey provide an essential introduction to this invisible but critical form of
infrastructure—the rules and specifications that govern so many elements of the
physical and digital environments, from the color of school buses to the shape
of shipping containers.
In an approachable, often outright funny fashion, Pomerantz and Griffey explore
the nature, function, and effect of standards in everyday life. Using examples
of specific standards and contexts in which they are applied—in the realms of
technology, economics, sociology, and information science—they illustrate how
standards influence the development and scope, and indeed the very range of
possibilities of our built and s...
Main title:
Standards [electronic resource] / Jeffrey Pomerantz
Author:
Jeffrey Pomerantz, Author
Imprint:
United States : The MIT Press, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (242 pages, 927.0 Kbytes,)
Series title:
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780262380522
Language:
English
BRN:
531971
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