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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 1 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2019.03.13.02 PDF: Carpenter_Cesspools The Hot Springs of Arkansas emerge from the hillside of Hot Springs Mountain, in the Ouachita Mountains about an hour’s drive from Little Rock. Although visitors today can only see a couple of “demonstration springs,” there once were 47 naturally occurring springs on the…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 4 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.12.20.01 PDF: Schatzberg_Vinsel_Kranzberg First and Second Laws Kranzberg’s First Law By Eric Schatzberg “Technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral.” This gnomic pronouncement is probably the best known of Kranzberg’s six laws. A search on this phrase produces over 9000 hits on Google, and…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 4 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.12.20.02 PDF: Schaefer_Coopersmith_Kranzberg Fifth and Fourth Laws Kranzberg’s Fifth Law By Dagmar Schaefer “All history is relevant, but the history of technology is the most relevant.” The farmer and the frog: or how Chinese farmers know all about Kranzberg’s Fifth Law. Before I even knew what the…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 4 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.12.20.03 PDF: Twagira_Mills_Kranzberg Third and Sixth Laws Kranzberg’s Third Law By Laura Ann Twagira “Technology comes in packages, big and small” In 1986 Melvin Kranzberg wrote: “If we look into the history of any mechanical device, we find that the basic invention required other innovative changes to…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 4 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.12.20.04 PDF: Rogers_Curating Art Science and Technology Shadows and Ashes: The Peril of Nuclear Weapons Exhibits on the history of technology make arguments for the future of technologies. Along with the turn toward material practice in a variety of humanities fields and the urgency of science and…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 3 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.01 Davis_Levees Slavery and Maintenance Why is the U.S. Army in charge of the levees on the Mississippi River? There’s no one-sentence answer to this question. Even answering it in a paragraph would be difficult. The story of how the military became entwined with the great river…
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