Sci&Tech History

Technology, policy and funding become three elements which can’t be separated. Beyond the three elements, there are human which made the linkage possible. Triple helix is an example of a model which try to linkage those elements, or sometimes substituted with label university, government and industry. Formula which believed as an ideal relation between the [...]

Revolution industry delivers human into an automation era. Thousand labors can be substitute by one machine, farming as one of human activities since the pre-history time, also find a significant change. Tractors, artificial fertilizer, DNA engineering are a few examples of how technology influence the way we farm and deal with the nature. But, does [...]

Actor Network Theory(ANT) is one theory which occur in science and technology studies. ANT sees human and non-human in a symmetric ways. For example, if we want to talk about weapon, simulation, bridge and etc, then we are not only see the people which influenced by the appearing of those object, but also how the [...]

What is in a number? The Human Development Index, Gross Domestic Product, and other parameters are using numbers as standards to justify rather a country or region is categorized as rich, moderate or poor. Sometimes the parameters are equivalent with the society condition, but in some case the gap between rich people and poor people [...]

The Boston Biobang was triggered by two companies which success in reached continuity in raising capital and put a number of drugs on the market. In the early stage, biotechnology development was dominated by scientist which doing research for the sake of scientific world. Science for science makes the company difficult to attract funders. Big [...]

Lately, numbers of transportation accident in Indonesia increase, one of them is train. Maybe we can blame age of the railways, or standard operating system which doesn’t qualify the safety standard, or maybe because the operator which fall asleep during operating hours. What/who ever we choose to blame, won’t change the condition unless serious attention [...]

Thomas Alfa Edison and Henry Ford are few examples of technopreuneurs. They became well known, not only because their innovations but also by their abilities to promote and sell their product. From the consumer side, there are three types of product innovations(Consumer Behavior, 2004): A continuous innovation has the least disruptive [...]

How can someone became an idol? Or how can we know that a song will became a hit song? The answer is almost impossible, although there are some patterns which occur on an idol, and hit songs. In his research with Hasker, Duncan Watts recommend five strategies: Increase the number of [...]

Policy to develop biofuels, is started with the National Energy Policy to achieve 5% biofuel utilization of the total energy mix. Through Presidential Instruction No. 1 Year 2006 on Biofuels Supply and Utilization as an Alternative Energy to thirteen governmental Institutions and Regional Governments, and supported by Presidential Decree No. 10 Year 2006 on National [...]

One of the sub-topics of this blog was labeled STS. An acronym for Science and Technology Studies, or sometimes also refer to Science, technology and Society. STS label was introduced around 1960s which in viewing relation between science, technology, and society, and how each of them influences the others, while its themes has been anticipated [...]