Sci&Tech History

What kind of metaphor do you prefer: using concepts in biology or physics? I see biology metaphor is used in east tradition, while physics is used in the west. Industry revolution is an example on how human are being digitized in a mechanistic way. Machine that record employee daily activities is more powerful than an […]

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with nature—or matter that is not made by human beings—gradually have been supplemented and, to some degree, superseded by engagements with artifice. Nature has been replaced by artifice as the immediate world in which we all live and move and have our being (Mitcham, 1999).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

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One approach which lately rises in social theory is self-organization. The concept was adapted from biology principal. It is Stuart Kaufman, a biologist which gives significance in the recent literature on the science of self-organizing system. His work including how things, including society and technology can be characterized as a living organism and most of […]

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In January 2006, the government initiated a presidential instruction about provision and use of biofuel as alternative energy source. The instruction addressed to 13 government institutions and regional government on biofuel supply and utilization as an alternative energy. As a supporting team, the presidential instruction also followed by the Presidential Decree No.10/2006 on National Team […]

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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 […]

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Revolution industry delivers human into an automation era. Thousand labors can be substitute by one machine, farming as one of human activities since the pre-history time, also find a significant change. Tractors, artificial fertilizer, DNA engineering are a few examples of how technology influence the way we farm and deal with the nature. But, does […]

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A friend of mine sent me the image above. An image that is constructed by our watching television culture.
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Nowadays, food safety is becoming an issue. Expired date, its composition, organic or not are few things that influence people decision, rather to buy a product or not. Food processing techniques which also influence the expired date develop along with human abilities. In 1870s, boron usages were widely used in milk, butter, and cream. Later, […]

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“To know the truth, you must risk everything.”(Trinity, The Animatrix)
How do you know that this is the real world, and not only a dream? For Neo in The Matrix trilogy, the question had made him faces the truth that he never imagine before. His daily activities that he percept is not more than bits of […]

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