EDIT 2/27/2012 — A lot of people are showing up looking at this lately. I have an...
Technology
Technology doesn’t follow the same naming pattern as fields like biology or geology—and there’s a reason for that. While “bio” and “geo” come from Greek for life and Earth, “technology” has different roots. It comes from “techne,” meaning skill or craft, and “logia,” meaning study. So, unlike the natural sciences, technology is about the study of human-made tools, systems, and methods. This category explores the origins, uses, and meaning of technology—how we define it, how we use it, and how it shapes our world. From deep dives into etymology to practical reflections on digital life, we examine tech from all angles.
Contention: There is a contention that cyber is the electromagnetic spectrum and that point is countered by...
The Internet has done strange things to us. We think we are more important than we are...
Unlike a lot of technologists I don’t have a bevy of personal computers I use. I only...
Abstract This paper discusses the issues of technology, music, and the intersection with social movements such as...
David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla in the early 2000s discussed as part of Network-centric Warfare the concept...
Abstract The requisite behavior of paranoia in dealing with information assurance and security topics building towards a...
Abstract Can we accept that the security of information is not the same as the security of...
One of the things I hear politicians say, especially near elections, is that the solution to the...
Abstract When the Internet began a small group of users were involved in the project, and the...
The following image is the one that you’d never expect. It is a graph from a fairly...
Beguiling sound and visuals aside this is a revolutionary method of interacting with computers. The primary concepts...
If you look at the form and function of technology much of it is built upon the...
A few years ago I was doing some writing and I found a discussion of a model...
For realistic ubiquity and pervasiveness of the Internet and the associated technologies and use cases the world...