Sci&Tech History

Borrowing the phrase from Winner (1985)–Do Artifacts Have Politics, this article try to investigate relation between artifact and nationality. If we see nationality as social construction, we can examine artifact nationality by seeing its construction. But if we see nationalism as something elementary, we have to find another entry point. One of my favorite case [...]

Top economists and United Nations leaders are working on a “Green New Deal” to create millions of jobs, revive the world economy, slash poverty and avert environmental disaster, as the financial markets plunge into their deepest crisis since the Great Depression. [...]

In constructivist and essentialist debate, existence of grand narration is being questioned: does nature has gender? Further, how this classification influence the social? In constructivism, influence is determined by its construction. Rather to see car as a vehicle for men, constructivist see this tendency as a result of social construction. Root of the problem is [...]

Is open source anti-thesis of proprietary or it complement? If proprietary does not exist, would open source movement emerge? Nowadays, there is a new phenomena on open source movement: collaboration with proprietary. IBM, Novell and SUN are several name who joined open source movement by share their information and resource. In one hand, this tendency [...]

An interesting exhibition elaborating evolving relationship between pervasive computing and urban architecture will presented in September 2009. Through internet, it is possible to work out of the office and still get connected with person in the same office. This new relationship can save transportation fees, and give opportunities to conduct several work in the same [...]

It’s almost been a year since our first intersection. You left a comment in my blog and then we contacted several times through email and chat. I found myself easy to talk to you, not because we have a lot of similarity but since I don’t know you well. The feeling is similar with writing [...]

Is it possible for a machine to fall in love? Ask Wall-E and Eve, maybe you will get yes for an answer Although the movie can categorized as science-fiction, the way Wall-E watch movie indicate something more beyond machine and consciousness: imitating. In the movie we can see how Wall-E express his love by [...]