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Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 3 – doi:10.15763/jou.ts.2017.08.27.03 PDF: Free_Meet Mr Kilowatt Take U.S. Highway 377 South from Ft. Worth, drive across the Brazos River, through Tolar and Bluff Dale, and past Stephenville. By the time you pass the field of rusting farm equipment near Proctor, you’ll be in Comanche County, Texas. The first white…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 3 – doi: 10.15763/jou.ts.2017.08.27.04 PDF: Spinak_Twenty First Century Oil Encounter Editor’s Note: This article was written before Hurricane Harvey. Last summer’s critically-acclaimed “modern Western,” Hell or High Water, has a happy ending, of sorts. In the final scene of the film, the main character is building an extension onto his…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 2 – doi:10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.5.9.01 PDF: Usenyuk-Kravchuk_Arctic Enhancement Introduction Arctic indigenous peoples are widely recognized as living examples of successful adaptation to severe environmental conditions. However, ethnographic and anthropological studies tend to focus mainly on immaterial “traditional knowledge,” while tangible artifacts and practices, related skills and technologies that still constitute the very…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 2 – doi:10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.5.2.01 PDF: Vikstrom_Rush for Greenlandic Metals Never before has the demand for metals been as high as it is now. Products and technologies we use every day, including smart phones, electric cars, wind turbines, cutlery and light bulbs are all constituted by metals, and demand is soaring. In…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 2 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.5.2.02 PDF: LanzarottaGreene_Communications Technologies In May 1975, high above the earth’s surface, a structure resembling a large mushroom with two snow shovels attached to its dome released itself from stable geosynchronous orbit and drifted to a new station over Lake Victoria in Central Africa. The passage of…
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Technology’s Stories vol 5, no. 2 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.5.2.03 PDF: Stein_From Snow Eagle In late 1952 or early 1953, a man from California travelled between Edmonton and Vancouver with Trans Canada Air Lines, now Air Canada. He had such a miserable time that he left a comment card behind after his flight, complaining: “Today’s flight…
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