Articles Tagged with social effects of technology

Inscribed by hand (II)

The technology of writing

Sometimes everything changed, sometimes it didn’t.

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Inscribed by hand (I)

Is handwriting necessary?

Handwritten English is much less important than it was.  But handwriting is not.

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Archives and old software

Looking again

We find ourselves agreeing with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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One of the in-crowd

Doing popular things

We come to contradictory conclusions.

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Comes the dawn

Early risers

We notice an asymmetry between sunrise and sunset.

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Science vs. technology

Not always on the same side

Even for scientists, the March of Progress is not always a good thing.

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Alternate histories (II)

Abandoning dragon engineering

What would you be if you weren’t you?

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A stone in the sidewalk (II)

millstone set in the sidewalkRepurposed art

We muse on something outside of our area of expertise.

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Apples and oranges

Making the right comparison

electric scootersThe answer you get depends on the question you ask.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Old science fiction

The trouble with predictions

It didn’t happen that way, but we enjoy the stories in spite of that.

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