Walter tells his life story for the duration of the First World War, in real-time 100 years to the day from. Everything that happens to him is firmly based in historical fact and contemporary accounts. Review (with Roy Rosenzweig) of David Noble, Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (Monthly Review Press, 2002), The Nation, April 22, 2002, 29-32. Walter is a fictional but authentic character, created from a range of historical sources, checked and verified by independent historians. He co-authored, co-created, co-produced and/or edited the Project’s Who Built America? materials.īrier has published a number of historical articles as well as academic and popular pieces on the impact of new technology on teaching and learning, one which is available online: He co-founded the American Social History Project in 1981 with Herbert Gutman and served as its executive director until 1998.
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Competing methods, equally promising, were rejected because they left control of production in the hands of skilled workers, rather than in those of management or programmers.
Numerical control took shape at an MIT laboratory rather than in a manufacturing setting, and a market for the new technology was created, not by cost-minded producers, but instead by the U. Noble shows how the system of numerical control, perfected at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and put into general industrial use, was chosen over competing systems for reasons other than the technical and economic superiority typically advanced by its promoters. This provocative study of the postwar automation of the American metal-working industry-the heart of a modern industrial economy-explains how dominant institutions like the great corporations, the universities, and the military, along with the ideology of modern engineering shape, the development of technology. Technology has been both a convenient scapegoat and a universal solution, serving to disarm critics, divert attention, depoliticize debate, and dismiss discussion of the fundamental antagonisms and inequalities that continue to beset America. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own. Focusing on the design and implementation of computer-based automatic machine tools, David F.
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