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"General introduction to the history of technology privileging a global view over typical Eurocentrist takes on the subject"--

Technology --- Technology transfer --- History. --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History

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"A history of Cold War-era satellite communication largely from U.S. and Soviet perspectives"--

Artificial satellites in telecommunication --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History --- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War --- History

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A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today's strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why are they all in such bad shape? In Lifelines of Our Society, Dirk van Laak offers broad audiences a history of global infrastructures--focused on Western societies, over the past two hundred years--that considers all their many paradoxes. He illustrates three aspects of infrastructure: their development, their influence on nation building and colonialism, and finally, how individuals internalize infrastructure and increasingly become not only its user but regulator.Beginning with public works, infrastructure in the nineteenth century carried the hope that it would facilitate world peace. Van Laak shows how, instead, it transformed to promote consumerism's individual freedoms and our notions of work, leisure, and fulfillment. Lifelines of Our Society reveals how today's infrastructure is both a source and a reflection of concentrated power and economic growth, which takes the form of cities under permanent construction. Symbols of power, van Laak describes, come with vulnerability, and this book illustrates the dual nature of infrastructure's potential to hold nostalgia and inspire fear, to ease movement and govern ideas, and to bring independence to the nuclear family and control governments of the Global South.

Infrastructure (Economics) --- Sociology, Urban. --- History. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban --- Sociology, Urban --- History

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"A historical and cultural study of astronomers' chairs, their design and function, and their connection to 19th-century concepts of race, class, gender, and power"--

Astronomy --- Chairs --- Chair design --- Equipment and supplies --- History. --- Design --- Furniture design --- Seats --- Furniture --- Seating (Furniture) --- Benches --- SCIENCE / Astronomy --- SCIENCE / History --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History

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A biography of Tor -- a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core. Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital age, is best known as the infrastructure underpinning the so-called Dark Web. But the real "dark web," when it comes to Tor, is the hidden history brought to light in this book: where this complex and contested infrastructure came from, why it exists, and how it connects with global power in intricate and intimate ways. In Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, Ben Collier has written, in essence, a biography of Tor -- a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, politics, and empire in the deepest reaches of the internet. The story of Tor begins in the 1990s with its creation by the US Navy's Naval Research Lab, from a convergence of different cultural worlds. Drawing on in-depth interviews with designers, developers, activists, and users, along with twenty years of mailing lists, design documents, reporting, and legal papers, Collier traces Tor's evolution from those early days to its current operation on the frontlines of global digital power -- including the strange collaboration between US military scientists and a group of freewheeling hackers called the Cypherpunks. As Collier charts the rise and fall of three different cultures in Tor's diverse community -- the engineers, the maintainers, and the activists, each with a distinct understanding of and vision for Tor -- he reckons with Tor's complicated, changing relationship with contemporary US empire. Ultimately, the book reveals how different groups of users have repurposed Tor and built new technologies and worlds of their own around it, with profound implications for the future of the Internet.

Dark Web. --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History --- COMPUTERS / Internet / Online Safety & Privacy --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance (see also SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance) --- Tor (Electronic resource)