Globalization and Vulnerability: Challenges and Opportunities for SHOT around Its Fiftieth Anniversary

摘要

Fifty years ago, SHOT was designed and created-one could say, engineered-in a careful and strategic way. During the subsequent fifty years, SHOT developed into the leading international scholarly society in the history of technology. The maturing of the society and its journal, Technology and Culture, went hand-in-hand with the development of the field of the history of technology. Since the initial breaking-away from the history of science, the history of technology has now acquired all of the characteristics of a well-established scholarly discipline: national and international societies, peer-reviewed journals, book series, newsletters, graduate programs, and professorial chairs.