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The Space Review: A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies (enjoy the crime, and the jazz...)

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/839/1

aliens, no fantastic technology, and generally no universe-threatening dilemma for the heroes to solve. The shows focus more on characters than plot. It is a far less interesting,

Infostat, cargo-cult science and the policy sausage-machine

https://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/cargocult.html

the use of information technology and statistics to support and legitimate managerial decision-making. Clinicians are a problem. Not only are they frequently confident and articul
NICE, CHI and the managerial takeover of clinical practice

Hero worship

https://mats-winther.github.io/hero.htm

put their trust in technology and science. Christian religion tried to put a curb on the expansive spirit with the message of an imminent catastrophe, the apocalypse. Since the ti
The hero is symbolic of personal emancipation. Yet, the motif gives rise to hubristic expansionism, to the detriment of heartfelt values.

"My Cord-Cutting Adventure", a Presentation for the Calgary Unix Users Group

http://brander.ca/cordcutcuug/

last analogue recording technology. Akio Morita of Sony set five teams to work within Sony, all inventing along different lines. The winner Betamax, an example of a better technol

History of Transistors Museum

https://semiconductormuseum.com/Museum_Index.htm

1952 TRANSISTOR TECHNOLOGY MADE TO THE COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM.   SEE DETAILS IN THE “NEW AND IMPORTANT” SECTION BELOW.     THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT AND CHECK BACK OFTEN AS WE C

Romsey Australia - Early Settlers Homes and Bush Huts in Australia.

http://romseyaustralia.com/houses.html

Aborigines lacked the technology to cut bark on a large scale until the European tomahawk became available. An early indication of direct transference from the Aboriginal to the E
Romsey Australia: Early Settlers Homes and Bush Huts in Australia.

Places to Visit in Europe

https://www.billdietrich.me/PlacesEurope.html

History of Science and Technology in Islam (boring, IMO) In Galata: Pera Museum. Paintings, tools. In Galata near Taksim Square: French Institute. Art exhibits. Free. In Galata at
Places to visit in Europe

SAGE-  Phoenix Air Defense Sector & 4629 Support Squadron

http://www.smecc.org/sage-__phoenix_air_defense_sector_%26_4629_support_squadron.htm

hulk of early  50s technology?  Unfortunately, most of the computer  will end up in the junk yard. Parts that  can be reclaimed, such as copper wire,  are

Democracy we Presume?

http://thescorp.multics.org/24democracy.html

of privately funded technology to meet new challenges in a competitive world. Superficially, a seeming paradox here, freedom of choice for the individual from career to consumer g

Realms of Gold: A Sketch of Western Literature: Miscellaneous

https://ljhammond.com/classics/cl5.htm

that wealth and technology were worthless if they didn’t help people to live better. He insisted that, “there is no wealth but life.” 2 His best-known work on ec
A rapid survey of literary classics on various topics, including art history.

Armageddon-IBM-InstallsUsageMeters.html

https://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/JVG-Armageddon-IBM-InstallsUsageMeters.html

Georgia Institute of Technology, named Fundamentals of Digital Computers, and given by the math department two years before there was even a digital computer on the Georgia Tech c

Paul Heckbert's Web Page

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/

New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab, Mar. 1985. (Postscript, missing figures). Appeared in Advanced Image Processing course notes, SIGGRAPH '86, Aug. 1986. An E


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