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Culture, history and society

Culture, history and society

How the technology we create changes us

27 Dec 2021
Taken from the December 2021 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "Technologies that changed us".

Kate Gardner reviews The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another by Ainissa Ramirez

On the dot Before the telegraph and quartz clocks, Ruth Belville set her watch at Greenwich Royal Ob

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