technology

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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?

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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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• 2/24/19
  

  What Can the Humanities Teach Us About Big Data?

  by Jo Guldi

  The "Critical Search" techniques of Big Data uncover the nuances and patterns of the past in the Humanities.

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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.