[SIGCIS-Members] Resources on Technology "Laws"?

[David Alan Grier]

Another good source is the preface to the 1992 Itrs Roadmap that gives a narrative of how the industry adopted Moores Law as it goal.

David
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David Alan Grier
Fellow, IEEE
President Elect, IEEE Computer Society 
Assoc. Prof., International Science & Technology Policy
Center for International Science and Technology Policy 
grier at gwu.edu




On Oct 5, 2012, at 8:33 AM, Paul N. Edwards wrote:

> There's a nice article about the genesis and meaning of Moore's Law in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing — Ethan Mollick, either 2005 or 2006 -- that gets at some of this and might lead to useful sources.
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> Donald Mackenzie has a piece about Moore's Law as a self-fulfilling prophecy in his collection Knowing Machines.
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> - Paul
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> Le Oct 5, 2012 à 12:43 PM, Joshua Welsh a écrit :
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>> Hello!
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>> I wonder if anyone in the group could point me to a resource or two on the "Laws" and Maxims that seem to pervade the technology industry. I'm thinking of things such as Moore's Law, Brooks' Law, etc. I guess I'm especially looking for some kind of "meta scholarship" on laws and maxims themselves. It's simple enough to find sources that explain or contextualize the laws themselves. but a bit harder to find scholarship on the big picture.
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>> A bit of context: I'm working on my dissertation, which involves the rhetoric that technological choices are built upon, and I've stumbled across an allusion to Amara's Law (i.e., People tend to overestimate technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term.). I got to wondering just how big of a role such laws play in technology decisions. 
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>> Thanks in advance!
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>> -Josh
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>> Joshua Welsh
>> PhD Candidate, Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication
>> University of Minnesota
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