The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900

By D. Edgerton. 2019

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Electricity market design for the prosumer era (2016, background): “Even if smart prosumer grids manage to reach most of the world’s population over the next few decades – which is far from a certainty – conventional sources of energy (such as centralized grids, based on fossil fuels or solid biomass fuels for cooking) will likely still remain utilized, just as musc”
Eco-efficiency guiding micro-level actions towards sustainability: Ten basic steps for analysis☆ (2009, background): “The dominant role of old technologies in economic growth has been extensively investigated (see Edgerton 2007).”
Latent life: Concepts and practices of human tissue preservation in the International Biological Program (2013, background): “The present case demonstrates that when viewed as a set of biomedical technologies ‘in use’ (Edgerton, 2007), cryopreservation reveals itself also to have been constituted through the involvement of an extremely heterogeneous array of actors, including human biologists, industrial and military…”
Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature (2008, background): “Though it is tempting to frame the spread of mobiles in the developing world using binary or absolutist terms—mobiles “leapfrogging” landlines, or rendering PCs redundant—PCs, landlines, and mobiles (not to mention TVs) are likely to interact and coexist with each other for a long time ( Edgerton, 2”
Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality (2018, unknown): “Moreover, historians of technology have shown that old technologies and practices do not disappear: on the contrary, they remain vitally important, often continue to persist in specific niches of application, compete against newer technologies, and, in certain conditions, might become popular again ”