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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.05.14.04 PDF: Moon_Social Progress What is the place of religion in work for social progress? This question often produces widely divergent responses, with some seeing religion mainly as a source of conflict in societies, and others pointing to the role of religious people and communities in important…
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Technology’s Stories, vol. 6, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.05.14.05 PDF: NowotnySchot_It Could Be Otherwise The idea of social progress and the origins of modern science and technology are inextricably intertwined. Indeed, it was this idea that kept the entire enterprise of modern science and technology going. Reinforced by the actual scientific and technological practices, this…
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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. 6, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.03.16.04 PDF: Krige_Representing a Life In 1955 a brilliant young engineer who had left China in the 1930s returned home to put his knowledge at the service Mao’s new revolutionary regime. Qian Xuesen (better known in the West as Hsue-Shen Tsien) graduated from Jiao Tong University in…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 1 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.03.16.03 PDF: Shin_Hangul Artificial intelligence practitioners and commentators have regarded the late 1980s and early 1990s as an “Artificial Intelligence Winter” for the US, Europe, and Japan. However, this was a very prosperous period for South Korean researchers studying the brain, the computer, and artificial intelligence. As…
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