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Technology’s Stories vol 8, no. 3 – DOI: https://doi.org/10.15763/jou.ts.2021.01.05.03 Newton Between 1922 and 1947 Barbra Bird regularly accompanied her husband, a forester, on trips to lumber camps in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. They trekked into remote forests in the winter on snowshoes, making their way to piles of logs stacked on to…
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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 1 – DOI: 1015763/jou.ts.2019.03.13.03 PDF: Foley_Regulating Contested Reality Technology regulations, at their core, are based on an idea of what a technology does or what its uses are. Of course, these ideas and the resulting regulations are the product of negotiations, conflicts, and compromises between different people with different stakes.…
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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 1 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2019.03.13.01 PDF: Handmer_Wildnerness or Open Space For millennia, anthropogenic creep has been slowly but surely transforming planet Earth from a living, breathing solar-system anomaly to a sort of mechanised, weaponised and plasticised cyborg. In this context the 500,000 trackable odds and ends that have been jettisoned, abandoned,…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 1 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.03.16.01 PDF: Lussier_Intuitive Human In an early scene of Her, Spike Jonze’s 2013 romantic science fiction film, the protagonist, Theodore, purchases a new operating system marketed as a revolution in personalized computing. After setting up the operating system, Theodore asks its surprisingly personable female voice (played by…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 1 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.03.16.02 Garvey_Broken Promises Artificial Intelligence (AI) is once again a promising technology. The last time this happened was in the 1980s, and before that, the late 1950s through the early 1960s. In between, commentators often described AI as having fallen into “Winter,” a period of decline, pessimism,…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 4 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2017.12.04.01 PDF: Hicks_Feature Not a Bug Until recently, the idea that Silicon Valley was a meritocracy seemed firmly enshrined in mainstream U.S. culture. Despite decades of research by sociologists, cultural anthropologists, and historians, popular press often focused on talent more than privilege to explain the successes of…
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