Sci&Tech History

“Bioenergy markets are largely policy dependent in most of the world, as the production of biofuels in most countries is not at this point competitive with fossil fuels. Nearly all countries reported that energy security and climate change are the most important drivers of their bioenergy development activities. Overall there are few differences between the [...]

Over the course of approximately 2.5 million years, human engagements with nature—or matter that is not made by human beings—gradually have been supplemented and, to some degree, superseded by engagements with artifice. Nature has been replaced by artifice as the immediate world in which we all live and move and have our being (Mitcham, 1999). Recently, [...]

In New Deal that was proposed by Indonesia’s President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, bio fuel development is purposed to create jobs, rescue the suffering from the crisis, and including the weakening of the purchasing power because of fuel price increase. In his presentation, Yudhoyono said that the beneficiaries of bio fuel development are job creation [...]

In bio fuel development in Indonesia, as mentioned by Executive Director of Kreatif Energi Indonesia enterprise, Johan Begin Bukit, the information that been received by the farmer is not precise. The farmers think that jatropha is similar with ‘planting gold’ so they set a high price for jatropha, whereas the early concept of jatropha development [...]

Indonesia has a long history in farming. Since the New Order government has launched policy on rice self-sufficient or sometimes called green revolution, social-technique-politic elements has entered farmer daily life. According to Loekman Soetrisno, the green revolution has succeed to change farmer culture from anti-technology into open to technology, but is also raised a new [...]

In bio fuel development in Indonesia context, how can we steered the bio fuel development? Moreover, who steered who? Fisher purposed what he called “reflexive awareness,” for actors to become attentive to nested processes, structures, interactions, and interdependencies, both immediate and more removed, within which they operate (Fisher, 2006). Reflexive awareness also implicates equality, so [...]

In 2006, government launched Presidential decree numbered 5/2006 on “National Energy Mix” which targeted bio fuel as a source to fulfill 5% of national energy need on 2025, followed by presidential instruction numbered 1/2006 on “Supply and Utilization of Bio fuel as Alternative Fuel”, presidential decree numbered 10/2006 on “The Establishment of National Team for [...]

How can a specific scientific issue become well known? One of the answers is media. Al Gore with his movie, An Inconvenient Truth has helps us to understand relation between human activities and the global warming, although to see its implication need a further research. In Media, Culture & Society journal, it is said that [...]

“Turning technology into a tool for human development often requires purposive effort and public investment to create and diffuse innovations widely. Investment in creating, adapting and marketing products that poor people can afford or need is inadequate because their incomes are too low and do not present a market opportunity for the private sector.” (UNDP [...]

Today, I was talking with my lecturer about technology and culture. He said that several philosopher which used to be pointed when talking about this subject are Martin Heiddeger, Michel Foucault and Paul Virilio. The last name is new for me. Virilio see relation between technology and culture to analyze war. This one of his quote [...]