Sci&Tech History

The Boston Biobang was triggered by two companies which success in reached continuity in raising capital and put a number of drugs on the market. In the early stage, biotechnology development was dominated by scientist which doing research for the sake of scientific world. Science for science makes the company difficult to attract funders. Big […]

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Lately, numbers of transportation accident in Indonesia increase, one of them is train. Maybe we can blame age of the railways, or standard operating system which doesn’t qualify the safety standard, or maybe because the operator which fall asleep during operating hours. What/who ever we choose to blame, won’t change the condition unless serious attention […]

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Thomas Alfa Edison and Henry Ford are few examples of technopreuneurs. They became well known, not only because their innovations but also by their abilities to promote and sell their product. From the consumer side, there are three types of product innovations(Consumer Behavior, 2004):

A continuous innovation has the least disruptive […]

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How can someone became an idol? Or how can we know that a song will became a hit song? The answer is almost impossible, although there are some patterns which occur on an idol, and hit songs. In his research with Hasker, Duncan Watts recommend five strategies:

Increase the number of […]

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Policy to develop biofuels, is started with the National Energy Policy to achieve 5% biofuel utilization of the total energy mix. Through Presidential Instruction No. 1 Year 2006 on Biofuels Supply and Utilization as an Alternative Energy to thirteen governmental Institutions and Regional Governments, and supported by Presidential Decree No. 10 Year 2006 on National […]

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On Long Island, New York, the bridges over the parkways are extraordinarily low, having as little as nine feet of clearance at the curb. As an implication, cars that can past the parkways are private car with certain kind of height. Robert Moses, the bridge builder that works from 1920s to the 1970s in […]

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In the first half of the nineteenth century, Charles Babbage applied binary numbers to a calculating machine. In 1890, the binary system was developed by Hermann Hollerith which invented punch card, going back to an invention by the early nineteenth-century Frenchman J-M. Jacquard. The invention makes conversion from numbers into instructions possible. Several years later, […]

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What happened if a turkish astronomer dressed in his traditional national costume, demonstrate the existence of asteroid B 612 in front of his colleagues? In The Little Prince, a fiction book written by Saint-Exupery, the answer of the question are scorn and laughter. While when he dressed up with three-pieces suit(trousers, shirt and a tie), […]

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Have you ever buy something without getting plastic materials? Unless you buy fried food in the border of a road, it’s a bit rare to buy something without getting plastic as it cover. Human and plastic have a long history. The Egyptians has used resins, natural plastics, to varnish their sarcophagi, and the Greeks made […]

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In a notes so-called Blue Book, Wittgenstein point out that a dictionary is insufficient as a definition of meaning for a language because of its self-reference. For example, the word “regain” in Webster’s 1828 is defined as to recover, as what has escaped or been lost. At the same time the word “recover” is defined […]

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