Sci&Tech History

In the last workshop, bio energy development has raised several issues: energy, food and forest security. The problem occur because all of them use land as their basis, and I think because we don’t have any planning which based on rural society. Bio energy, similar with oil, become an export commodity. While our food need [...]

Two mainstream which arise in technology studies are technology determinism and humanism. Technology determinism put technology as an agent of change. Gun for example, is bad, no matter who use it. While humanisn group, put human as a decision maker. Gun can be good if it used for defence propose. Information communication technology (ICT) have two side [...]

Television has bring a lot of change for the society. Not only that they can get information from it, but also lifestyle. From Palapa sattelite history, television penetration in Indonesia was designed to welcome Sea Games event, and rise our nationality. By time, television become an industry tool to promote their product. Maybe, if someone [...]

Does technology has politic? As a culture product, it does have. The question that arises is how can we ‘control’ the politic of technology? By seeing its construction, the politic of technology can be followed by see it assessment. In bio energy case, scientist assessment on nature will influence the technology selection (policy). Problems arise [...]

Since 2006, Indonesia government has released several policy which have an relation with bio energy development. Until now, the policy which designed to be friendly to people, planet, and profit has not give a good performance. What went wrong: the bio energy technology, the people, the policy, or …

Can beauty be quantified? Maybe everyone has their own answer for this question based on their subjectivity, but for batik fractal, the answer is yes. Yesterday, I have interviewed a person who develops batik fractal. He tries to combine patterns which available in traditional batik with pattern from the mathematics field: fractal. My feeling about [...]

Does knowledge need material artifact? Moreover, does technology gives impact to society? For me, the answer of those questions is yes. Knowledge can not be spread without using words, books, material presentations, computer, while technology influence our way of life. In traveling for example, nowadays it is usual to use airplane for moving around the [...]