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How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. This is the story …
An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land.After 1776, the former American …
Blackouts-whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism-offer snapshots of electricity's increasingly central role in American …
The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure.The North American power grid has been called the …
How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the …
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one …
How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.At the close of …
A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters.When Jay Keyser arrived at MIT in 1977 to head the Department of Linguistics and …
An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern. When have you gone into …
If machine learning transforms the nature of knowledge, does it also transform the practice of critical thought?Machine learning-programming computers to learn from data-has spread …