HHS 312 - Technology & Society in America
Resources for learning about Technology in American History
Columbia American History online - Search for a Scientific Culture, 1890-1945
http://www.caho.columbia.edu/eseminars/0742.html
American Heritage
http://www.americanheritage.com/
Library of Congress, Science, Technology, & Business Division
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/
Library of Congress, American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
NY Public Library: Science, Industry, & Business Library
http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/
George Mason University, Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/
Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian
http://invention.smithsonian.org/
Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/
IEEE History Center
http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/
The Office of Technology Assessment Legacy
http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/
Random Links (as discussed in class)
1981 Report on Newspapers and Home Computers
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/29/you-need-to-see-this-video/
Automotive X Prize
http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-01/ff_100mpg
Smart Grid at Stevens: Prof. Ali Mostashari
http://www.stevens.edu/press/cgi-bin/wordpress/?p=338
Standards for Electronic Health Records
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2009022207252662
Iraq Prosthetics Project
http://basraproject.com/default.aspx
Doctors Raise Doubts on Digital Health Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/business/26health.html
The City (1939)
http://www.archive.org/details/CityTheP1939
Modern Times (1936)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=893627879073510155
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990711/REVIEWS08/907110301/1023
The Sokal Affair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
White House OSTP
http://www.ostp.gov/cs/home
Obama Speech at the National Academy of Sciences (April 27)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/27/The-Necessity-of-Science/
Animation from Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/boston/interactive/interactive.html
MTA Official Site
http://www.masspike.com/bigdig/
MIT Libraries documents
http://libraries.mit.edu/rotch/artery/
Big Dig Disaster
http://bigdigdisaster.com/
Big Dig Ceiling Collapse
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/big_dig_ceiling_collapse/
5 Most Expensive Engineering Projects
http://www.science-bookmarks.com/2009/04/worlds-most-expensive-engineering.html
Rosalind Williams comment
http://www.historyoftechnology.org/eTC/v47no3/williams.html
Internet Society Compilation of Histories
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/
IEEE Compilation of Histories
http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/related_sites/internet.html
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
Al Gore "invented the Internet"
http://www.sethf.com/gore/
James Pelkey, A History of Computer Communications
http://www.historyofcomputercommunications.info/index.html
Oral Histories - Charles Babbage Institute
http://special.lib.umn.edu/cbi/oh/
Internet Engineering Task Force
http://www.ietf.org/
How the Internet Got its Rules
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07crocker.html
Ideological and Policy Origins of the Internet
http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0109056v2
"Rough Consensus and Running Code" and the Internet-OSI Standards War
http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_annals/annals/content/promo2.pdf
The Story of Silent Spring
http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp
PBS Frontline: Silent Spring Revisited
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nature/disrupt/sspring.html
Poison Takes Toll on Africa's Lions
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/26/60minutes/main4894945.shtml
Controlling Our Food
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFnx2W6CvY
Monsanto, Milk, and the News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axU9ngbTxKw
Germany Bans GM Corn
http://us.oneworld.net/article/361908-germany-bans-gm-corn
Michael Pollan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-t-7lTw6mA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pollan
http://www.michaelpollan.com/
Climate Change: History, Science, Persuasion
PBS: History of Global Warming
http://www.pbs.org/now/science/climatechange.html
Spencer Weart,The Discovery of Global Warming
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/summary.htm
US Climate Change Science Program
http://www.climatescience.gov/
**Nobel Peace Prize, 2007**
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "Climate Change 2007"
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/index.htm
An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.climatecrisis.net/aboutthefilm/
Climate Change Denial Industry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGrkVoa78o
Al Gore's New Campaign
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/27/60minutes/main3974389.shtml
Skeptics Dispute Climate Worries and Each Other
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/science/earth/09climate.html
**Freeman Dyson: The Civil Heretic (& John Horgan's comments)**
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html
http://www.stevens.edu/csw/cgi-bin/blogs/csw/?p=369