Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
This article is a companion material to the courses I teach at Purdue University as a University core class. The course teaches trade-off thinking as a fundamental method for understanding technological choice and innovation. All technologies are shaped by competing choices Any…
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As the reactor failure at the Fukushima Plant in the aftermath of the Sendai earthquake increases public apprehension of nuclear technology, the future of this type of energy production might not be as bleak as it looks. There is one design that…
What you say if you got a $1.5 BILLION grant? Samuel Ting (Nobel Prize laureate, 1974, MIT professor) got precisely this amount over 10 years to put a new experimental device in space. The device was meant to detect anti-matter. Although intriguing,…
An ambitious Social Netwok Analysis site… The World Wide Web (WWW) has changed how humans interact; for some scholars, we now live in the “Age of the Network”. As online populations grow and the quantity and quality of interactions improve with new…
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei Identity theories and social media What cultural and intellectual forces account for the social and intellectual ethos that fuels the social media revolution?…
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The funniest communication technology related You Tube video clips. My favorite, when books were laptops. Hit the “>” button to see the next clip.
Web 3.0 technologies: A research Agenda Publish at Scribd or explore others: Internet & Technolog Research web social Is Web 3.0 here? If not, what will it look like, when it will arrive? Professor Sorin A. Matei, Purdue University, predicts in the…