technology

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  The Last Days of the Tech Emperors?

  by Margaret O'Mara

  The mood of Congressional questioning of tech executives recalled the traffic safety debates of the mid-1960s that helped catalyze significantly more regulation for the auto industry.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  7/17/2020
  

  Abraham Lincoln, Tech Entrepreneur

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  The president who created the National Academy of Sciences in 1863, Abraham Lincoln, did more to advance the scientific revolution in American life than any chief executive of the 19th century.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  Marshall McLuhan: The Man Who Predicted the Internet and Warned Us of its Dangers

  by Ludovic Rembert

  These days, most of Professor McLuhan's "global village" is kept in private and confined spaces: the village plaza is Facebook, a space that is operated for commercial purposes, restricting our discussions and absorbing our private data within our conversations and searches to sell it to advertisers.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/29/2020
  

  The Long, Unhappy History of Working From Home

  As the coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.

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• 6/28/2020
  

  Vannevar Bush: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Indispensable Expert

  by Michael H. Ebner

  Vannevar Bush's efforts to bring the expertise of scientists to bear on public policy decisions led to the establishment of the National Science Foundation under Harry Truman's presidency.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  6/8/2020
  

  Complete Roman City Mapped Using Advanced Ground-Penetrating Radar Technology

  The technology used in this project could "revolutionize" archaeological studies of ancient urban sites.

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• SOURCE: MIT Technology Review
  6/3/2020
  

  Why Filming Police Violence Has Done Nothing to Stop It

  The evidence suggests body cameras and other technological solutions to police violence are inadequate because the police are protected against consequences even if their misdeeds are recorded. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  6/3/2020
  

  Remote Reflections: Learning in the Time of Corona

  by Sarah Shurts

  Sometimes it is not a matter of making the past more engaging for students, it is a matter of engaging ourselves in the present lives of our students.

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Disruption and Resilience: Lessons from the Ancient History of the 2000s

  by Garrett Peck

  The history of the 2000s is a story of human resilience in the face of crisis. We must find ways to respond to disruption with mutual care and creativity. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/11/2020
  

  Video Chat Is Helping Us Stay Connected in Lockdown. But the Tech Was Once a ‘Spectacular Flop’

  by Francine Uenuma

  The first video-call technology was demonstrated in 1927, but the idea was largely a failure in the years that followed. Here's why.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/11/2020
  

  Victim or Executioner? Let the Computer Decide

  An interactive plan for a Holocaust museum envisioned sorting visitors into victims, executioners and collaborators. Backlash ensued.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/30/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Could Rewrite the Rules for Silicon Valley

  by Margaret O'Mara

  The blue-collar workers who power the digital economy — including fulfillment center workers and app-based couriers — are pushing for higher pay and better protection, just as Detroit autoworkers did 90 years ago.

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• SOURCE: KIRO
  4/28/2020
  

  Internet Access Proves Necessary to ‘Participate in Life’ During Pandemic

  Harvard Law Professor Susan Crawford argues that the regulatory system for electric utilities established by Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s is a model for necessary reforms to the telecommunicatins industry to ensure all Americans can access the internet.   

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/24/2020
  

  Video Killed the Teaching Star: Remote Learning and the Death of Charisma

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  The history of experiments in teaching students through television should tell us remote learning won't replace in-person classes. 

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• 4/26/2020
  

  Historic Houses Turn to Technology Amid COVID-19 Closures

  by Hana Hancock

  Historic home sites have responded to the COVID crisis by developing online exhibits. More work remains to be done, and many cultural and historical institutions are in financial peril from the crisis, reports HNN's Social Media Editor. 

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• SOURCE: MacLeans
  4/15/2020
  

  During the Coronavirus, Academics Have Found Themselves in a Crisis of Their Work

  by Rinaldo Walcott

  I think now is the time for academics to be practicing a public pedagogy where humanists and social scientists engage the public beyond the university in what it means to be human.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/7/2020
  

  How New Efforts Are Recovering the Stories of People Who Were Deleted From History

  by Rachel Lance

  For so many American families, lack of representation in paperwork might have otherwise led to a lack of representation in memory, but technology and crowdsourcing are finally bringing them out of the shadows.

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• SOURCE: WAMU.org
  4/6/2020
  

  A Must For Millions, Zoom Has A Dark Side — And An FBI Warning

  Dennis Johnson fell victim last week to a new form of harassment known as “Zoombombing."

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  4/7/2020
  

  Artificial Intelligence is Preserving our Ability to Converse with Holocaust Survivors even After They Die

  Survivors of the Holocaust now have the chance to preserve their stories in a way that allows them to directly answer future generations' questions about their experiences.

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• 3/22/2020
  

  As We Zoom into Online Learning….

  by Norman J.W. Goda

  To learn effectively, we all need to be, once again, in the same room. Let’s hope it is soon.