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• Credit Card Imprinter
  ...ncy has now become almost completely technological, a matter of developing technology that can collapse the time between a sale and the verification of the card. ...cal range of their spending. Before the dominant problematic became one of technology, there were other problematics including the struggle over control of credi
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• Hollerith Punch Card
  ...chniques for tabulation required for statistical analysis. The Punch Card technology was a remediation of card catalogues, short hand writing systems, and the J ...for the invention. The lithograph, although not a direct precursor, was a technology that also reproduced visual patterns in the 19th century, with the prospect
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• Cathode Ray Tube
  ...n medicine, but many medical sociologists cite a shift in focus in medical technology from representational images to statistical modeling. "The digital image i ...t G. The High-Vacuum X-Ray Tube: Technological Change in Social Context. ''Technology and Culture'' vol. 38, no. 4: 852-890.
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• Stickerbooks
  This technology proved useful for a variety of outlets, not just for postages stamps, but a ...onging but also recess bragging rights to the latest in sticker trends and technology.
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• Viewmaster
  ...s applications have changed in the seven decades it has been produced, the technology has largely remained the same, circumventing some issues of compatibility. ...a reel directly, and was also the first to have a 'Lite Attachment'. The technology for the product is that of the stereoscopic dual vision transparency, which
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• Roentgen Ray Tube
  The early development of x-ray technology, beginning with the Roentgen Ray Tube in 1895, can be seen as a new way of ...lity of the act of representation. This is a useful way to think of x-ray technology in which electromagnetic radiation (a form of energy) goes through solid ma
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• The Victrola
  ...) The Victrola is a remediation of the Musical Box, using much of the same technology in its process of automation. The winding lever is present in the mechanica ...ng and reproduction. The Victrola took the successful elements from of the technology employed by both the early phonograph, and the gramophone. The phonograph w
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• Medieval Mariner's Compass
  ...ing magnetism for geomancy—the divination of land and topography, with a technology referred to as the “the south-pointing spoon.” The process of magnetiz ...se sailors? Did it come from intermediary Arab sailors who had brought the technology from the Far East? It is now agreed upon that the compass arrived in Europe
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• Hacking this assignment
  ...es, although the market is no longer embodied in a specific place or media technology. The question of death is discussed more explicitly on the pages, [[Mediati ...tory, and which are placed outside of that history? When approaching a new technology from a historical perspective, how might one decide which prior forms of me
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• Where do media go to die?
  ...you make use of a device whose interface no longer works with any existing technology? ...reproducible for it to be extinct? Indeed, the reproducible of a specific technology is what makes patents so important: the schematic itself must be protected.
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• Political Effigies
  ...workers and peasants who did not want to part with Lenin. The rudimentary technology would not hold his body for long, and when freezing became unfeasible due t ...t relations had soured and it was out of the question to share such prized technology. The Chinese had to turn instead to the Vietnamese for assistance, and cre
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• Skeuomorph, or the "click"
  ...? In other words, I am suggesting that materially inessential feature of a technology be co-opted into a necessity for artistic and political reasons.
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• Black box
  ...requires to a certain extent the opening of the black box surrounding the technology. A prime example of this is the "[[obvious]]," i.e. those aspects of the technology that are used due to the particular historical context of the development o
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• Car Phone
  ...he first installment of the mobile telephone, a pre-generation to cellular technology. ...hnological shortcomings of the mobile phone, but also a re-focusing of the technology on individual phone users, rather than telephony locales. (History of Mobil
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• Wire Recording
  ...f the telegraphone and what it was capable of which piqued the interest of technology writers, who were most interested in its use in relation to the telephone a ...recording in general was its broad applications. While almost all of the technology's uses never truly took root, the storage of audio data nevertheless ranged
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• Enigma machine
  ...codename Project ULTRA. These mathematicians used both high-speed machine technology as well as hand testing, to crack the code. By the early 1940’s, these m As Ratcliff posits, “Enigma…demonstrates how a new technology can quickly move from startlingly revolutionary to so familiar that its ope
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• Mood Ring
  ...meaning changed by temperature, basically--liquid crystals are the primary technology involved in 'thermochromic' and 'thermochromatic' media, and the basis for The technology has practical functions in medicine. It can be used to measure temperature
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• BeOS
  ==What BeOS said about technology==
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• NASA Spoon-bowl
  ...ish the space that yawns between the stars” (Clarke, 114). Communication technology had pulled people and countries tightly together; geographic expanses of Ea ...shuttle to escape the earth’s gravitational force. In other words, the technology for long-term travel was foreseeable, but they puzzled over the problem of
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• Architectural cyanotypes
  ...by diazo-type printing machines, which in turn was replaced by “advanced technology” (Bellis) invented by Xerox. Computer aided design (CAD), and specificall Earle, James H. Drafting Technology. (Reading, Mass: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; 1986)
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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
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• 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,
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• 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
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• 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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• HyperCard
  ...plugged in, and the controls are outside your body, being part of whatever technology is interfaced to the body itself. As part of such a man-machine interface ...yperCard, journalists referred to the application as 'database software' ("TECHNOLOGY"). But the creator of HyperCard and Apple Computers insisted that HyperCard
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• Mosso Ergograph
  ...sponsibility of which therefore had to be shared by the areas of medicine, technology, education, and politics” (8).
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• Acoustic Coupler
  ...he children’s game Telephone, has less in common with the materiality of technology than with the sociability of interpersonal communication. The acoustic cou
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• Phonodeik
  ...information captured by the Phonodiek can be segmented in time. While the technology is analogue because it produces a continuous image over time, similar to a
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• 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
  ...ormed by players” (Galloway, 5). This article will not only focus on 3DO technology as ground-breaking for the home console, but will also examine how the cons ==Design and Technology==
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• Macintosh TV
  Mossberg, Walter S., "Personal Technology," ''Wall Street Journal,'' Nov 4, 1993. pg. PAGEB.1, Eastern edition
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• Daguerre's Diorama
  ...ifact, the diorama thus provides an interesting exception to Foucault’s "technology of individuals" (qtd. in Crary 15) regulated by surveillance, as well as De
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• Heliograph
  ...g location by aligning the viewing lens with the sighting vane. Though the technology dates back to the Native Americans in a primitive form (“As Told by Helio Primarily used as a technology of warfare, the design of the Heliograph can be seen as closely addressing
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• Smell-O-Vision
  ...rg/wiki/Scent_of_mystery ''Scent of Mystery''], was ever released with the technology. ==Technology==
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• Dance Card
  ...oncurrence, law and files mutually determine each other. A given recording technology entails specific forms and instances of the law” (xiii). Etiquette is the Vismann, Cornelia. ''Files: Law and Media Technology.'' Stanford: Stanford UP, 2008.
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