Outdoor music festivals like the OnPoint Music & Arts Festival and Stevens’ radio station WCPR are just some of the outlets that showcase our students’ passion for music and art. At Swinburne, our researchers are dedicated to driving …
October 7, 2022 • Facebook profits from being frictionless, says Yaël Eisenstat. The solution, Yaël says, is to build more friction into social media. Generally, technicism is an over reliance or overconfidence in …
Technology’s central role in our lives has drawn concerns and backlash. The backlash against technology is not a uniform movement and encompasses many heterogeneous ideologies. Major figures of techno-utopianism include Ray Kurzweil and Nick …
The use of basic technology is also a feature of other species apart from humans. These include primates such as chimpanzees, some dolphin communities, and crows. Taken to extreme, some argue that technicism …
All the different and usable technologies developed by a culture or people. The pandemic actually became a good opportunity for graduated Food Technology Department. This is related to the “Specific …
Past automation has both substituted and complemented labor; machines replaced humans at some lower-paying jobs , but this was compensated by the creation of new, higher-paying jobs. Studies have …
Having always wanted to help people, Monique Cooper was inspired when her lecturer showed her that her engineering degree could make a positive impact on the world. Now Monique is one of our great graduates sharing …
The advantages of copper tools over stone, bone and wooden tools were quickly apparent to early humans, and native copper was probably used from near the beginning of Neolithic times . Eventually, the working …
It did not take long to discover that wheeled wagons could be used to carry heavy loads. The ancient Sumerians used a potter’s wheel and may have invented it. A stone pottery wheel found in the city-state of …
This includes the use of pulleys, levers, wheels and axles, wedges, inclined planes, and even cogs and gears. Mechanical technology is used for any task that involves doing mechanical work, which is primarily the …
