Alex WellersteinVerified account

As if historians of technology have written nothing about this... https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/making-silicon-valley … https://twitter.com/IEEEInstitute/status/969798777472278528 …

Serious question -- ideas on how to advocate productively to get people writing essays of this sort to find and read and mention some of the scholarship?

I wish I had an answer to this. @ColdWarScience hits on a painful point though. One answer - p'raps @wellerstein has thoughts - is to cultivate productive relationships with editors of journals (cf. @PhysicsToday). But that's not a cure-all.

I don't think we can expert non-scholars to take a whole lot of their time to trawl through our scholarly outputs. Esp. if we don't make it easy to do. Let's face it — even we have hard times keeping up with the literature, knowing where to start on a new topic, etc.

Yeah. I think our community launches into this discussion every so often, maybe in predictable ways/times. While I think it's a necessary conversation, I don't know how productive it is.

I think it's worth keeping in the background — if you want to change things, you have to build the infrastructure for that change (a very hist/sci/tech point!). There are several people within HSS working towards building some infrastructure, from different angles, FWIW.