#histoftech — Public Fediverse posts

Im starting „African Motors“ (a little late I know) and I’m a bit baffled (again) at this tendency to emphasise #African innovation and creativity in the #informal sector. It’s true of course but shouldn’t the point of an African #histoftech be to question the narrative of progress through innovation?

#models can be a good way to gain #experiential #knowledge of systems too big and complex to be preserved in running condition at original scale.

And also, who needs a reason: just looooooooook at our railways.

#histOfTech #publicHistory #experientialHistory #rail #LTS

Today, I received yet another email trying to goad me into contributing to a an academic book on growing potatoes... Because I published an article on Paul Baran's packet-switching design from 1961, which he named 'Hot Potato Routing'. It's a network routing design!

This kind of spam is either bad ML or extreme sloppiness, and it's profoundly annoying.

Does this stuff happen to anyone else?

#academicchat #commodon #histodon #histofTech

Old profile, but a new #introduction.

I'm Lucas Erichsen, I hold a Ph.D. in History and a technical degree IT. I’m interested in Environmental History, History of Technology, History of Computers, History of Science, Digital Humanities, Python and computer hardware.
A busy and complex intersection, but I do fell always curious and eager to learn the complex world we share and live in. #histodons #history #envhist #envhistodons #histofTech #digitalhumanities #computerscience

@rdpor #histofTech here. though I'm a bit more analog, lol