Articles Tagged with social effects of technology

Looking at and looking through

Ways of seeing

What you see depends on how you look.

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Surveys and telephones

Fitting in the box

If you don’t ask the question, you won’t get the answer.

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Several things at once

Multiplexed astronomy

An example of answering several questions at once, by doing several kinds of observation at once.

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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.

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The importance of being there

Imagination becoming reality

Comparing images from space with paintings of space.

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Human limitations

What are people best suited for?

Perfection is one step away from extinction.

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Disaster this time?

Threatening technology

Kodak 1918 camera and iPhoneNew 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.

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Non-spectacular spectacles

Seeing astronomical events

Moon in eclipseA total solar eclipse is an amazing spectacle.  You might not even notice other astronomical events.

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A modern irritation

on smartphone zombies

New technology often brings irritations as well as conveniences.

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Machine learning

Trained by our machines

Our chief consultant realizes how effective our machines have been at training us to perform tasks efficiently and exactly.

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