technology

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• 11/5/19
  

  The Internet at 50: The future and “dissolving containers”

  by Harlan Lebo

  The internet has long been on a path of constant reinvention, with flux being the sole constant. The biggest question of all is: where will digital technology go next? 

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• 10/29/19
  

  The Internet at 50: The Night the Internet Was Born

  by Harlan Lebo

  If there was a single moment that would define the start of the technology that would become the internet – this was it: the future was born. 

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• SOURCE: Wired
  10/18/19
  

  Zuckerberg’s Warped History Lesson and the Age of Incoherence

  by Naom Cohen

  The Facebook CEO invoked the civil-rights era to justify kowtowing to money and power. It doesn’t wash.

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• 10/22/19
  

  The Internet At 50: How the Dot-Com Bubble Burst

  by Harlan Lebo

  As a cautionary tale and a business school lesson about irrational investor expectations, no modern example proved better than the dot-com bubble.

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• 10/20/19
  

  To Stop The Rise of Nationalism, We Must Remember High-Tech’s Role in Supporting Past and Present Nationalistic Agendas

  by Clyde W. Ford

  Since the dawn of the digital age, nationalism has relied on digital technology.

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• 10/15/19
  

  The Internet at 50: Four Steps in Transforming the Digital World

  by Harlan Lebo

  The internet may have been “born” in October 1969, but it then percolated for years as complex, near-impenetrable masses of data stored in computers around the world. Online technology would evolve for more than two decades before it would become practical for everyone to use. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  10/3/19
  

  Will Technology Change How We Understand Interpersonal Violence? Maybe. Probably Not.

  by Sarah Horowitz

  It’s more accurate to say that technology can help us find the evidence that we are culturally primed to look for.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/11/19
  

  How the Long History of Human Violence Explains Why the Internet Causes So Much Chaos

  by Mike Martin

  Why is there so much chaos? The history of violence offers one possible answer.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/19/19
  

  Historians' archival research looks quite different in the digital age

  by Ian Milligan

  Our society’s historical record is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Think of all the information that you create today that will be part of the record for tomorrow. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/30/19
  

  The Atlantic Publishes Article Encouraging "New Science of Progress"

  Many historians insisted this field already exists: it's history. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/15/19
  

  ‘The Code’ Review: How Green Was the Valley

  by Randall Stross

  As late as the early 1970s, Northern California seemed a long-shot candidate for the center of the computerized universe. A review of Margaret O’Mara's The Code. 

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• 7/14/19
  

  Alexa: What Can Apollo 11 Teach Us About Our Relationship with Technology?

  by Tracy Dahlby

  The fact that we pulled off Apollo 11 at all is a testament to American ingenuity and pluck. Yet while the successful moon landing decided the race for space in America’s favor, it didn’t undo our subliminal angst about the tightening embrace of technology.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/10/19
  

  How antitrust laws can save Silicon Valley — without breaking up the tech giants

  by Margaret O'Mara

  For AT&T in the 1950s, antitrust enforcement helped increase competition while keeping Ma Bell intact.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/19/19
  

  Historians Luke Fernandez and Susan Matt ask: Has Technology Made Us Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?

  by Rebecca Onion

  A new book takes a historical look at how tech affects our collective mental state—and somehow, it’s not tedious.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/10/19
  

  I Needed to Save My Mother’s Memories. I Hacked Her Phone.

  by Leslie Berlin

  After she died, breaking into her phone was the only way to put together the pieces of her digital life.

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• 3/31/19
  

  E-Carceration: Are Digital Prisons The Future?

  by Christopher Twarowski

  Digital “shackles” have been utilized by the U.S. criminal justice system for more than 30 years but their use has increased a whopping 140 percent throughout the past decade.

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• SOURCE: Science Daily
  2/27/19
  

  Facial recognition software to identify Civil War soldiers

  Photo Sleuth may help uncover the mysteries of nearly 4 million photographs of Civil War-era images.

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• 3/10/19
  

  Lessons from Studying Corporate History and the Case of IBM

  by James W. Cortada

  And what it can teach us about the longevity of corporations. 

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• 3/10/19
  

  The Most Alarming Argument in Jill Lepore's These Truths

  by Walter G. Moss

  How technology has destablized our world and why there's still hope. 

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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?