Word: revolutionize
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Mendelsohn's professional interest, of course, is in the history of science. His popular core courses "Darwinian Revolution" and "Science and Society in the Twentieth Century" explore the interaction of scientific ideas with social practices. Mendelsohn's own work considers the external effects of science, like war, as well as...
Newcomers to the Internet are often startled to discover themselves not so much in some soulless colony of technocrats as in a kind of cultural Brigadoon -- a flowering remnant of the '60s, when hippie communalism and libertarian politics formed the roots of the modern cyberrevolution. At the time, it all...
As Steven Levy chronicled in his 1984 book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, there were three generations of youthful computer programmers who deliberately led the rest of civilization away from centralized mainframe computers and their predominant sponsor, IBM. ``The Hacker Ethic,'' articulated by Levy, offered a distinctly countercultural set...
We should recall that between the Renaissance and the 19th century Industrial Revolution, new communications technology, from the printing press to the telegraph, generally spurred mass political participation. True, today's Pollyannas could end up looking as foolish as the doomsayers of that era once did -- like Alfred Lord Tennyson...
Indeed we shall -- and indeed we are, for the battle is already well under way. Seldom have the opportunities for riches seemed so great, or the risks of failure so daunting, as in today's rush to profit from the information revolution. It is a contest that goes beyond who...