Something New Under the Sun¶
McNeill, J. R. (2000). Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. W. W. Norton.
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- Kranzberg's first law
- History of technology and STS — the home turf, where the law is the canonical refutation of technological neutrality and the standing instruction to evaluate the artifact-in-its-deployment rather than the artifact alone. Technology and innovation policy — underwrites assessments that the deployment context (regulation, distribution systems, complementary infrastructure, the alternative displaced) determines outcomes, redirecting "is X good or bad?" into the structured context-question. Engineering ethics — the teaching frame against "I only build it" and "guns don't kill people," separating non-determination (true) from inertness (false) to block the maker's evasion without overcorrecting into determinism. AI and algorithmic ethics — the same frame applied to "the model is just math" and "AI is just a tool," flagging the neutrality move as a smuggled value-position whenever it surfaces at the point responsibility would be assigned. Environmental history — reads the DDT, synthetic-fertilizer, and CFC cases as textbook instances of one molecule taking opposing context-indexed valences across agriculture, ecosystems, and public health.
This sourceAn environmental history of the twentieth-century world that treats DDT, synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and chlorofluorocarbons among its central synthetic compounds.
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“synthesizing for the first time the [environmental history] of the entire planet during the”
- History of technology and STS — the home turf, where the law is the canonical refutation of technological neutrality and the standing instruction to evaluate the artifact-in-its-deployment rather than the artifact alone. Technology and innovation policy — underwrites assessments that the deployment context (regulation, distribution systems, complementary infrastructure, the alternative displaced) determines outcomes, redirecting "is X good or bad?" into the structured context-question. Engineering ethics — the teaching frame against "I only build it" and "guns don't kill people," separating non-determination (true) from inertness (false) to block the maker's evasion without overcorrecting into determinism. AI and algorithmic ethics — the same frame applied to "the model is just math" and "AI is just a tool," flagging the neutrality move as a smuggled value-position whenever it surfaces at the point responsibility would be assigned. Environmental history — reads the DDT, synthetic-fertilizer, and CFC cases as textbook instances of one molecule taking opposing context-indexed valences across agriculture, ecosystems, and public health.
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