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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 2 – 10.15763/jou.ts.2019.06.13.02 PDF: Shorey_Making Core Memory In a two-minute clip from the docuseries Moon Machines, two women in white smocks pass a needle back and forth through a matrix of eyelet openings.[1] Sitting under task lamps in a Raytheon facility outside of Boston, they are making “core memory” for…
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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2019.06.13.03 PDF: Lowengard_Western Travelers The interested bystander is a familiar presence in narratives of information exchange in the early modern period. The observations of expatriates writing home, officials on government-sponsored tours, merchants and traders were constant and often significant components to stories about dissemination of techniques across…
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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2019.06.13.04 PDF: Mamidipudi_Loom “My marriage is made of gold,” says an elderly weaver from East Godavari. This is a defining statement about a life lived in handloom weaving.[1] It seemed like a non sequitur in a conversation about the effects of the 2008 economic downturn on handloom…
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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 1 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2019.03.13.04 PDF: Reser_Displacement and Disruption In 1968, the Public Affairs Office at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), headed by Gordon Harris, released an informational publication––more of a short monograph written by Harris himself––called “The Kennedy Space Center Story.” Chapter one, entitled “A National Resource,” situates the Spaceport in…
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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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