technology

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• SOURCE: NY Times Magazine
  2/13/19
  

  The Secret History of Women in Coding

  Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  Accessed 2/13/19
  

  Is Email Making Professors Stupid?

  by Cal Newport

  It used to simplify crucial tasks. Now it's strangling scholars' ability to think.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/24/19
  

  Digital technology offers new ways to teach lessons from the Holocaust

  by Jennifer Rich

  New advances in learning about the Holocaust through digital humanities offer new ways for American students and teachers – or anyone who cares to learn more about the Holocaust - to learn about an event that took place nearly three-quarters of a century ago.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Old Concepts for New Concerns: the Railroad, the Internet, and Government Regulation

  by Tom Wheeler

  "The principles underpinning the industrial era rules remain valid today, they simply need updating to reflect the capabilities of the new technology." writes the former FCC Chairman.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/17/19
  

  Why Americans trust technology but not science

  by Joyce Chaplin

  Benjamin Franklin understood that the two go hand-in-hand.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-14-18
  

  The Hacking of America

  by Jill Lepore

  Political and technological disruption have fed off each other since the nation’s founding. Now they are dangerously out of whack.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-18-18
  

  It’s Not Technology That’s Disrupting Our Jobs

  by Louis Hyman

  The insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  1/9/18
  

  The Future of Work, a History

  by Kevin Baker

  America has a long, complicated track record of dreading that robots would take our jobs.

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• SOURCE: Stanford
  12-21-17
  

  Historians Weigh Forces That Shaped Silicon Valley

  Leslie Berlin and David M. Kennedy discuss the themes of her new book, “Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age.”

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• SOURCE: AHA Today
  12-11-17
  

  Historians' Debate: Will Robots Rule the World?

  by Dane Kennedy

  Louis Hyman says the nature of the changes being wrought by innovation are unprecedented.

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• 12-10-17
  

  When the Robots Take Our Jobs

  by Greta de Jong

  Majoring in STEM fields might teach students how to build robots, but studying history will teach them what to do when the robots take their jobs.

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• 5-22-16
  

  Without this, Technological Progress in the 19th Century Would Have Been Much Slower

  by Ben Wilson

  It’s gutta-percha. Here’s why it was vital.

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• SOURCE: Stanford News
  3-4-15
  

  Stanford’s Ian Morris says technology is changing the human animal

  Ian “Why the West Rules" Morris says that in the 21st century our cultural evolution is feeding back into our biological evolution.

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  10-20-14
  

  Sherlock Holmes star to feature in a new movie about Alan Turing

  The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is opening in wide release later this fall, bringing the tragic story of Alan Turing to the movies.

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• 2-8-15
  

  What We Can Learn from Innovators

  by Walter Isaacsonis

  How did the most imaginative innovators of our time turn disruptive ideas into realities?

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3-10-14
  

  The Technologists' Siren Song

  by W. Patrick McCray

  Tech buzzwords are a tepid substitute for robust analysis and honest critique.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3-11-14
  

  Why "Cosmos" Can’t Save Public Support for Science

  by Audra Wolfe

  The Cold War is over, and so is massive military-industrial investment in technology.

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• SOURCE: Phys.org
  10-17-13
  

  Historian Examines How Three 19th-Century Authors Recoiled from Technology

  Phys.org highlights Rosalind Williams' work exploring the responses of important authors to technology.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  6-27-13
  

  Apps mix history with technology at the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg

  PHILADELPHIA — At the 150th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg, many Civil War re-enactors will eschew the use of modern technology, but scores of tourists will embrace it.More than 5,700 Foursquare users have checked in at sites in the historic borough; more than 16,000 Facebook users have liked it. And in the weeks leading up to the anniversary, apps that offer maps and information about key battle spots have surged in popularity.Garry Adelman has been a licensed Gettysburg battlefield guide for 19 years and has recently moved his high-energy tour into the realm of the smartphone. The project was initiated four years ago by the Civil War Trust, a nonprofit battlefield preservation group where Adelman is the director of history and education....

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• San Francisco™, Brought to You By Google

  by Rebecca Solnit

  Credit: Wiki Commons/HNN staff.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com Finally, journalists have started criticizing in earnest the leviathans of Silicon Valley, notably Google, now the world’s third-largest company in market value. The new round of discussion began even before the revelations that the tech giants were routinely sharing our data with the National Security Agency, or maybe merging with it. Simultaneously another set of journalists, apparently unaware that the weather has changed, is still sneering at San Francisco, my hometown, for not lying down and loving Silicon Valley’s looming presence.