世界技术成果时空分布的量化特征及世界技术中心的转移

Space-time Characteristics of the World Technology Achievements and the Shifts in the World Technology Center

基于一本美国出版的技术史年表提供的3329条数据,本文通过数理统计方法探讨了世界技术成果时空分布的量化特征及世界技术中心的转移。从时空上看,世界技术中心是在转移的,转移顺序大体上是:古埃及、两河流域→古希腊、古罗马→中国→意大利、英国、法国、德国、美国。本文从技术门类层次上揭示了近现代世界技术中心转移规律的内在机制。

Based on 3329 data recorded in a chronology of the history of technology published in the USA, this paper, by using the quantitative method, explores the space-time characteristics of the world technology achievements and the shifts in the world technology center. Geographically and chronologically, the world technology center is found to have shifted many times with the overall order, from Egypt, Mesopotamia, to Greece, Rome, to China, to Italy, Britain, France, Germany, and the USA. The paper discovers an internal mechanism governing shifts in the world technology center related to technology categories in modern times.