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• Secretarial Letter Dictation
  ...ypewriters) are still in use in the legal system alongside voice-to-speech technology in case of computer failure.
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• Dumbwaiter
  ...that is static, privatizing, and decorative in its function; the other, a technology that is dynamic, utilitarian, and ultimately democratizing. ...a few centuries old. One of the earliest recorded applications of elevator technology within the domestic sphere comes - not surprisingly - from Versailles, the
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• Virtual boy
  ...uctance to take a risk accepting a radically different (though flawed) new technology. It also exposed how perfection driven the Japanese business model is (in t ...display. But that was about to change with the partnership of Reflections Technology, a company from Massachusetts that invented mirror scanning stereoscopic di
  20 KB (3,286 words) - 10:49, 24 November 2010
• Spirit Photography
  "Spirit Photography" refers to the use of photographic technology, with or without the use of a camera, to document the existence of the supe
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• Tamagotchi
  ...endly and form personal connections, and the rising popularity of personal technology. ...rtual caregiver (Allison, 172). Furthermore, the eye-catching and personal technology of the Tamagotchi made it easier for users to feel connected with their vir
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• Picturephone
  ...ty of “inexpensive and reliable camera and display tubes,” finally, “technology was beginning to catch up with the concept” (Carson 284). ...e general public were allowed, for the first time, to actually try the new technology to talk to, and see, people across the country. Opinions were generally fa
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• Stock Ticker Machine
  ...e of New York were able to trade on Wall Street with the advent of the new technology, localized markets became more and more obsolete. The country lost at least ...re was still a need for a two-way printing telegraph type of communication technology.
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• Parrots & Birds as Symbols of Surveillance
  == Audio Recording Technology & Wiretapping == ...’s coincides with a fall in popularity of the parrot as a pet. The first technology-based equivalent of eavesdropping is the tapping of telephone lines, also k
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• Dymaxion House
  In the era of industrialized technology, Fuller found resource mismanagement inexcusable. One of the practices he m As is frequently the case with high investment technology, war served as the motivation for the next implementation of the Dymaxion h
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• HD-DVD
  ...digital convergence – the fusion of consumer electronics and information technology (Toshiba). When the market began to demand a new technology to follow the standard DVD several companies began to develop alternatives.
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• Cyanotype (Architectural)
  ...by diazo-type printing machines, which in turn was replaced by “advanced technology” (Bellis) invented by Xerox. The process used a lot of paper and, accordi Earle, James H. Drafting Technology. (Reading, Mass: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; 1986)
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• Marginalia
  ...oretical changes in the way that society archives its own thoughts through technology. And so this dossier is more of a structure for a debate than it is a spec ...ost likely has little experience with this kind of marginalia, as computer technology has drastically changed the very idea of literary correction. Emendation,
  27 KB (4,451 words) - 10:31, 24 November 2010
• Analog/Digital Transition
  Wilder quotes Neil Postman in saying that “A new technology does not add or subtract something. It changes everything” (240). This se ...subgroup of the technical milieu but the external milieu become worldwide technology: the dilution of the interior milieu into the exterior milieu has become es
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• Old Color Spaces
  Billmeyer, Fred W., and Max Saltzman. Principles of Color Technology. Second Edition ed. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1981. 25-66.
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• Erasure
  ...cultural trope. This popularity reflects our cultural yearning for such a technology. It is the ultimate act of erasure. Often times a character will willingly
  8 KB (1,283 words) - 10:48, 24 November 2010
• Ramelli's Bookwheel
  ...bookwheel was for the information savvy people of the day. Today there is technology that allows us to cross reference more things quicker, observe multiple thi The information technology and need for a vast view of things has called for computers to be capable o
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• Dymaxion house valerie
  In the era of industrialized technology, Fuller found resource mismanagement inexcusable. One of the practices he m
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• Duplicating Polygraph
  ...ough the formation of a record. Cornelia Vismann in ''Files: Law and Media Technology'' would not doubt concur: in her discussion of the modernization of Prussia ...e polygraph to the American public. While the polygraph failed to become a technology of litigation, administration or mercantile operation, it spoke to fundamen
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• Newsreel
  ...st to release an all-sound newsreel on October 28, 1927, after testing the technology with two sound news films, recording celebrations of Charles Lindbergh's re ==Production and Technology==
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• Signet Ring
  ...truscans, from whom the usage was derived by the Romans" (Kunz 1). As the technology to work with metals and stone advanced, the form of the signet ring evolved ...us's ring both reflects and grants his authority by acting as an necessary technology for the authentication of self. Without his ring he is incapable of bringin
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