Your own instruments
A lesson in technology, economics and convenience.
Articles Tagged with old technology
A hands-on process
Maps and apps
In principle and in practice
Another way we may be inadvertently changing how we see the world.
The past in my pocket
Thruppence and history
Paying with physical money, especially pocket change, is going away. That will make future historians’ work harder.
The importance of being there
Human limitations
Disaster this time?
Threatening technology
New technology has been forecast to bring social disaster several times in the past. We seem to have avoided it; but that doesn’t mean we always will.
A modern irritation
Junk mail
Making things easy
New technology often makes a task much easier to do. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s done better.