In the past, accidents in the construction industry were accepted as part of the trade. If you worked in excavation or on an elevated structure you knew there was a chance that you could be injured or even die. As technology progressed so did safety equipment and safety procedures. Finely we are at ...

Langdon Winner calls technological determinism "nave," because the viewpoint fails to take into consideration the impact of social and political forces on the shaping of technological systems in society (63). Technology has no will of its own; it would be impossible to separate the psychologica...

Bonfire May Never Be the Same From the first Aggie Bonfire erected in 1909, to the catastrophic collapse in 1999, the tradition that Bonfire signified was "the burning desire to beat the hell out of T.U." (University of Texas). Bonfire still upholds that tradition, but the scars from 19...