The History Of Hyperscalers The technology industry is often compared to the fashion industry. Engineers are humans, and we're susceptible to influence—even fads.

Students will learn from the array of methodological approaches developed by historians of science, technology and medicine, and track the evolution of modern science from antiquity to the present, in ...

Every fall since 2020 I have been teaching energy economics in Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability (MSES) program. I team teach with my friend Mark Witte ...

Technology and Culture is the quarterly interdisciplinary journal of the Society for the History of Technology. The international journal publishes the work of historians, engineers, scientists, ...

As we look back on human history, we can analyze certain moments and periods that have shaped how humanity operates today.

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this ...

“It is the fastest-growing technology we’ve seen in the history of our company.” Jack Azagury, group chief executive for consulting at Accenture, told me.

The ENIAC was a 30-ton 'numerical monster'—and pivotal in the history of consumer technology.