Sci&Tech History

What is the characteristic of control? What do we expect by controlling? I think the main issue of controlling is to predict and further, to make plan. But sometimes, control has something to do with power. In order to control, a strict regulation was designed and as a consequence there are several people with an [...]

What do we actually refer when we talk about knowledge? Can knowledge be measured or knowledge is something non-calculable and we can only see its existence through performance? Does knowledge has anything to do with school? How things that we study, read, see, and listen influence our action? In an aggregate level, how this tendency [...]

Recently issues on e-government has arised. Some regency has succeed in developing e-government, increased number of investment, license and government coordination efficiency. Success stories from Jembrana, Sragen, Denpasar and Kebumen have something in common, all of them have strong leadership. Before the regency implement the technology, burreucracy reformation has been done. The reformation gives the [...]

Do you have any tendency in buying something? By clustering list of what you have bought by using your credit card, we can get some understanding about people and a certain product. A person who like to buy product A, for example, maybe have some similarities with someone who like watching metal music or literature [...]

Does technology has paradigm? As human creation, technology contains human dreams to be useful and meaningful. But how this purposes are being translated in a wider community? Recently, I am doing research in ICT area. My involvement with this communities make me believe that ICT is a good entry point to reduce inequality among areas [...]

Being in a policy area delivers me into a lot of questions about whether something is good or bad, preference (one is better than another) and regulation to support things we asses as good. One difficulties I face is how can we asses quantitative data with a qualitative point of view? In the the other [...]

Do you ever found Warung Telepon (warnet; telephone cafe) outside Indonesia? I guest your answer is no. I get this example from a lecture who told the uniqueness of warnet: an Indonesian technology that can’t be found outside Indonesia. Designed as a personal device, telephone in warnet has been completed with a billing device to [...]

I borrowed the title from Latour: Aramis, or the Love of Technology. The book talks about Aramis, a fascinating public transit system that never enter the real world. As Science in Action, Latour frame his story by following the actors–including design of the system, technology used, discourse among human actors, etc. The project runs quite [...]

“Rigid technologies don’t translate successfully from the North to the South.” (Akrich, 1992) Often, wells are drilled by NGOs purely on the basis of geological survey. However, in a country like Zimbabwe such wells do not always work. Even though the water that the well produces may be abundant and clear, and even though the new well [...]

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 [...]