Following directions
Old cast iron and new social media.
Articles Tagged with social effects of technology
How it’s done
Telescopes and databases
Astronomy changes. So do the kind of people who become astronomers.
The picture in your hand
Posters and the meeting
The effects of a social change are seen in the giveaways at a scientific meeting.
Build or buy?
A hands-on process
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.