Timothy J. Demy, Demetri Economos, and Jeffrey M. Shaw (NWC): Historical and Social Constructs of Technology: Contexts and Value for the Contemporary World. Jeff Malpas (Tasmania): The Fourfold and the Framework: Heidegger's Topological Critique of Technology. Charalampos Kokkinos (EAP): The Signification of Objects in the Context of a Critical Examination of Technological Civilization: An Interdisciplinary Approach; and Technology and Contemporary Human Condition: Cultural Expansion and Technological Intervention through Politics? Without government the market fails and fails badly: Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson on what the Simon-Ehrlich debate reveals about technological change. Harry Bentham reviews Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization by K. Eric Drexler. Robert D. Priest reviews The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon by John Tresch. The trouble with Moore's Law determinism: Your life is not 1,024 times as changey as it was ten years ago (and more on the status of Moore's Law: It's complicated). Despite claims to the contrary, the storage media in wide use today — CD-ROMs, spinning hard drives, flash memory, etc. — aren’t very durable; old-fashioned paper has done very well by comparison. Paul Waldman on technology's invisible future: When technology gets so advanced, it disappears. Larry Downes on how the faster a new technology takes off, the harder it falls. Farhad Manjoo on how to survive the next wave of technology extinction. Interstellar Hard Drive: All your precious data, everything you’ve created and every memory you’ve captured and stored, is etched on a hard disk somewhere on Earth; back it up all you want — it won’t matter if the planet goes.
