Sci&Tech History

If you facing a lot of job, what would you prefer: going online or offline? In one hand, going online help you gain a lot idea through chaotic idea that cross over your eye, but on the same time, a lot of distraction made you unproductive, especially when you open social networks websites and chatting [...]

Currently, I’m working a paper on ICT for development. The study delivers me to ask about ICT and development relation: are we improving ICT for development or are we developing for ICT? Looking The Digital Divide Report launched by UNCTAD, ICT development tends to answer the second possibilities. Our success is represented by number of [...]

Yesterday afternoon, my colleague asking my facebook activity. He said based on a research, facebook (and maybe some other social network activities) is time-consuming and caused someone to be unproductive. Commenting on people status, change their profile, make some notes, request someone to join an online game are several out of many facilities offered on [...]

By the end of 2003, John Kelly, who was executive for IBM’s Technology Group, gathered 10 executives to IBM’s chip factory in East FishKill, New York. His intention was made clear: IBM need to share its most advanced semiconductor research with allies. After a long heated debate, Kelly prevailed. Soon thereafter, IBM’s built what it [...]

This morning I watched Doel Anak Sekolahan, an Indonesian soap opera about Betawi culture. Main character of the soap opera, Doel, was depressed since his coming to operate new machine cause several workers lost their job. The new machine bought by the factory owner make the workers selection are based on their capability to operate [...]

In 1998, the European Union and the European auto industry association ACEA came to a voluntary agreement to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (SAM, 2005). The agreement seeks to achieve an average of 140g/km of CO2 in 2008 collectively by the members of the association. Having achieved only 160 g/km in 2005, European Federation for [...]

Construction of knowledge can be explained through ‘cycles of accumulation’ where actors extend their network with collective hybrids. The cycle start with scientist and engineer conduct their research in the laboratory. The scientist and engineer make observation, write some notes on sketchbooks, leave the laboratory, make some calculation and come out with a formula. Next, [...]

Being a constructivist makes me wonder about absolute truth: if everything in this world can be negotiated, do we still have any place for the truth of physical world? This question arose when I entered environment discourse focused on bio energy. One group said that bio energy support environment and energy sustainable, while another group [...]

On December 2008, United National Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon calls for a “Green New Deal” to tackle the twin challenges of climate change and the financial crisis. Ki-Moon speech in the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan stressed the need to act now and avoid any backsliding on commitments to tackle these threats.[1] [...]

In news about war, we can see how bombs kill children and women. Justification of those action was not far from its a consequence of war. The technology can not choose its specific target. Only by one click, someone can kill thousand life. Clean, easy and brutal. The situation has changes radically from the time [...]