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Technology’s Stories vol 6, no. 3 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.02 PDF: Wilk_Brief Histry of Dusting Cleaning kicks up dust, and dust takes its time to settle. In the early twentieth century, as business boomed and corporations clogged the sky, skyscraper managers scheduled a gap of hours between cleaning and dusting. They wrote about it in trade…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 3: DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.03 PDF: Rostvik_Feminine Waste Only Every fortnight one man enters all the women’s toilets at our university, removes and replaces the sanitary bins, and drives away in a van. Observing this system, I became curious about the grey rectangle with foot-operated pedals, “modesty flaps”, bearing the warning “for…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 3 – DOI:10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.04 PDF: Benevento_LongLeases As landlord of the King’s Court Shopping Plaza, I pick up lots of trash. Once upon a time, I took the litter personally, as if picking it up one day, the place should stay clean the next. Now, I take it like weather. Heavy or…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.05.14.01 PDF: ODonovanSchot_Crafting Stories A story, to triumph, must seize our imaginations. A story about technology’s role in social progress is no exception. Its characters must invoke love and hate. Its beginning must establish urgency; its middle twists and turns; and at its end, there must be…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 2 – DOI: 10.5763/jou.ts.2018.05.14.02 PDF: StirlingODonovanAyre_Which Way For better or worse, science and technology are both deeply entangled in “social progress”. This is the case equally in discourse and practise around the world. In areas such as health, wealth, energy, mobility, and communications, it is widely recognized that remarkable historical…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.05.14.03 PDF: Sutz_Health Inequalities Inequality is usually considered in economic terms, but is, in fact, a much broader social situation. Income inequality does lead to different types of inequality, particularly in the fulfillment of basic needs, but other forms of deprivation exist that cannot be deduced…
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