18 MAR 2012 by ideonexus The Telephone as Miracle
Crookes uses one daily, but is fascinated by it.
Folksonomies: technology,magic,miracle

31 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Scientists Must Learn to Forget Facts
Forgetting the unessential is crucial to surviving information overload.
Folksonomies: internet,technology,information overload

28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Tools Forever Changed Man's Relationship to Nature
The tools could change the environment in unpredictable ways.
Folksonomies: technology,tool use

13 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Web is a Social Tool Not a Technological One
It is meant to help people to work together ultimately, weaving us together.
Folksonomies: internet,world wide web,technology,society

12 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Two Factions of the Model Railroad Club
The club is were many hackers came from in the early days of computing. Half its members were into history and total control over a miniature world, the half that would become hackers were interested in the technology beneath the plywood.
Folksonomies: history,technology,computers

04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Population Must Increase Education to Stay Ahead of Technology
As people are automated out of jobs, society must increase their educations in order to keep them on top of the machines.
Folksonomies: education,technology,employment,automation

04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus We Have Been Living Off Low-Hanging Fruit
And the fruits of what we can discover technologically easily are vanishing, leading to a plateau.
Folksonomies: technology,progress

03 JAN 2012 by ideonexus All Technology is Social Engineering
When a developer designs an interface for a user to interact with a computer, they imply you are a program. When they put up a wiki, they suggest humans ultimately have a single point of view.
Folksonomies: social engineering,technology,internet

03 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Alchemy VS Chemistry
An alien from a mideval society receiving instructions to build advanced technology from aliens finds their directions full of digressions and careful methodologies to verify chemical compositions, where his alchemists' instructions are much more simple and poetic.
Folksonomies: technology,alchemy,chemistry,magic

03 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Applied History of Technology
An academic field for a galactic civilization in which they study the technological advancement of different species on different planets. Includes the concept of "jumpstarting," where a civilization is given more advanced technology, similar to the concept of "leapfrogging" for third world countries on Earth.
Folksonomies: technology,alien,leapfrogging,jumpstarting,other