Working manually
How much of your work is your own?
Articles Tagged with social effects of technology
Maps and apps
In principle and in practice
Another way we may be inadvertently changing how we see the world.
Looking at and looking through
Surveys and telephones
Several things at once
Multiplexed astronomy
An example of answering several questions at once, by doing several kinds of observation at once.
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.
Non-spectacular spectacles
Seeing astronomical events
A total solar eclipse is an amazing spectacle. You might not even notice other astronomical events.