Technology

Article Abstract:

A study traces the increased centrality of technology to social life across the period of modernity, exploring major shifts in thinking about technology, which underpin the shift from industrial to post-industrial society, and the emergence of concepts such as etechnoscienceE and 'technoculture'. It argues that a vital analysis of technology must examine the way that histories of technological progress were implicated in colonial hierarchies privileging the West.

Cybernetics

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Pleasures of technology

Article Abstract:

The history of automation records many automata developed for pleasure as interesting but useless distractions that merely postponed the technological direction of such automation, which is, to develop an instrument/process for the gradual and effective substitution of human labor. A discussion on the place of pleasure in technological development and conceptualization invokes some examples of the complex ways in which pleasure is constitutive of technology.

Information Systems & Theory, Information technology

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Protocol

Article Abstract:

The concept of protocol is an intellectual terrain on which one might contemplate a number of overlapping, sometimes contradictory and often interrelated theoretical problems at play in modern times. A study describes a few historical waypoints for the concept, identifies some of the normative claims inherent in using the term, and also suggests some issues with which, going forward, any theorist of computers or networks has to contend.

Computer networks, Information networks, Computer network protocols, Communications protocols, Protocol

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