{"599249":{"#nid":"599249","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Six Laws of Technology Everyone Should Know","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMelvin Kranzberg, co-founder of the Society for History of Technology and former professor in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Institute of Technology, was featured in the \u003Cem\u003EWall Street Journal\u003C\/em\u003E, November 26, article, \u0026ldquo;The Six Laws of Technology Everyone Should know.\u0026rdquo; The School of History and Sociology is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThree decades ago, a historian wrote six laws to explain society\u0026rsquo;s unease with the power and pervasiveness of technology. Though based on historical examples taken from the Cold War, the laws read as a cheat sheet for explaining our era of Facebook, Google, the iPhone and FOMO. You\u0026rsquo;ve probably never heard of these principles or their author, Melvin Kranzberg, a professor of the history of technology at Georgia Institute of Technology who died in 1995.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-6-laws-of-technology-everyone-should-know-1511701201\u0022\u003Efull article\u003C\/a\u003E, visit the \u003Cem\u003EWall Street Journal \u003C\/em\u003Ewebsite. Subscription required.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2017-11-29 15:56:32","changed_gmt":"2017-12-04 16:03:27","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"CS CM majors","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-6-laws-of-technology-everyone-should-know-1511701201","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599222":{"id":"599222","type":"image","title":"Melvin Kranzberg","body":null,"created":"1511898022","gmt_created":"2017-11-28 19:40:22","changed":"1511898022","gmt_changed":"2017-11-28 19:40:22","alt":"Photo of Melvin Kranzberg","file":{"fid":"228439","name":"Melvin_Kranzberg.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Melvin_Kranzberg.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Melvin_Kranzberg.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32444,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Melvin_Kranzberg.jpg?itok=J33Hh7w5"}}},"media_ids":["599222"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"176349","name":"laws"},{"id":"176350","name":"historian"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"},{"id":"9290","name":"iPhone"},{"id":"176351","name":"FOMO"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}