Sci&Tech History

Ever heard about upstream and down stream metaphor? According to Vincenti(1990), standard, rules, and regulation,  which often directives from upstream or downstream, are largely static, can become outdated, and can fail to apply clearly to dynamic and changing research and development(R&D) process and contexts. In order to avoid those weaknesses, we can partite those two [...]

The understanding of human genomes and the ability to “read” and “document” human genome sequences have a number of unique characteristics as well as some of the more genome generic ones pertaining to other scientific progress that have raised issues for concern over its ethical and social implication, or used to called ELSI(APEC, 2003). A several [...]

A couple weeks ago, I come to a producer. He showed me list of television programs based on an independent survey organization. The list, he said, has a power to make a program to be stopped or to be continued. Its name is rating. Although, some research institution is questioning the validity of rating, advertisement, [...]

Atomism in Sociology, any theory according to which social institutions and process arise solely from acts of individual men(Democritus)   The similarity between science and social also occur when Montesquieu(1689-1755), Robespierre(1758-1794), and Danton(1759-1794) lead the France revolution using “The Law of Harmony Lavoisier” to balance the development of science and technology in that period. After physic and chemical, [...]

One critic that has been pointed to modernism is determinism. Human, technology, relation between human and human, human-technology, and technology-technology have been modeled in a mechanistic way. Of course, there is always bright and dark side of modernism. Mass production, efficiency are several examples of the beneficial of modernism, while the Luddit rebellion against the [...]

Deterministic, order and predictable are several characteristics which pointed to technology. These characteristic are used to ‘attack’ wilderness of nature, and workers. Tool to count our attendance at the office for an example, make our habit become predictable, at least physically. The measurement continues by quantify our performance with numbers. Motivation can be transformed into [...]

There are at least three features of natural objects a laboratory science doesn’t have to accommodate(Knorr-Cetine, 1999): It does not need to put up with an object as it is, it can be substitute transformed and partial versions. It does need to [...]

The increasing of computer and internet using this decade has influenced the consumerism habits. It change has also influence the social classes. As noted by Rosenbush, those who are unfamiliar with or lack computer skills are being referred to as “technology underclassed.” These new segmenting groups, impact the lifestyles and the quality of life of [...]

What connect science, technology, and art? My friend asked this question while we were discussing Bandung Institut of Technology which consists of those elements. One of the answers which occurred is that science is the idea, technology made the idea possible, and art made the appearance of technology beautiful. An example of unity of the [...]

How do communities accept technology? From observations in the field, the problem is not only influenced by the technology performance, but also influenced by the culture and geographic specific character. By comparing three societies in Makki-Papua, Sampit-Central Kalimantan, and Subang-West Java, it is observed that efficiency of technology can be achieved if the research [...]