Imagine, if you will, that you are present in the Garden of Eden, a background character at the big show. To your left is an important tree with some apples on it, but there are also other trees in the… Read More ›
Heraclitus Redux
Review Of Joseph C. Pitt, Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change, Andrew Aberdein
Bobby Shaftoe, one of the protagonists of Neal Stephenson’s sprawling epic Cryptonomicon, learns that some tools have infrastructure: the systems necessary for their successful operation far exceed what any one individual could hope to control… [please read below the rest… Read More ›