20 Citations
Climate Change, Malthusian Catastrophe, and a Global Rule of Law
- Political Science
- 2020
The paper will not directly engage the scientific question of global warming. Instead, it will discuss the present-day idea of global warming as successor to the nineteenth-century idea of the…
The Notion of Innovation and Technology in the Norwegian New Year Speeches 1987-2010
- Political Science
- 2018
An Archeology of Cryptography: Rewriting Plaintext, Encryption, and Ciphertext
- Computer Science, Art
- 2017
This dissertation offers a critique of the prevailing views of cryptography by tracing a number of long overlooked themes in its history, including the development of artificial languages, machine translation, media, code, notation, silence, and order.
History of Computing
- Education
- 2017
Students who take this course will attain a degree of technological literacy while studying core historical concepts and learn the key vocabulary of the computing discipline, which is playing a significant role in modern human thought and new media communications.
Deep Transitions : Emergence , Acceleration , Stabilization and Directionality 1
- Economics
- 2016
The unfolding of industrial modernity has led to high levels of wealth and welfare in the Western world but also to increasing global ecological degradation and social inequality. The routine mode of…
Βασικές Αρχές και Τεχνολογίες στην Επιστήμη της Πληροφόρησης
- Computer Science
- 2016
It is shown here how to identify the different types of phytochemical compounds that can be used as aphrodisiacs.
An Imperial Railway Failure: The Indochina—Yunnan Railway, 1898–1941
- History, Engineering
- 2014
Imperial railway projects emphasised military, geopolitical and economic objectives but often failed to achieve their planned outcomes. This article addresses this gap in the case of the French-built…
Presence from Absence: Looking within the Triad of Science, Technology and Development
- Sociology
- 2014
This paper begins with the Simmel triad, a unit formed by three different sides, in order to explore science and technology in the applied mainstream discourse of development. My analysis begins when…