Science & Technology

Writing on technological change, scientific authority, and their organisational and social consequences—separating genuine progress from inflated promise.

Intellectual Warehouse

While access to information is now relatively more widespread than in the past, the modern paywall can often prove to be as much of a hurdle to access as the price of manuscripts was in yesteryear.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 5 Jun 2021

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Marginalia: WHO

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 16 May 2021

Inner Circle Only

How I Publish — Version 4.0

A few months back I gave a short sketch of how I publish online. But today is back to the future as I return to WordPress.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 12 Aug 2020

Printer working an early Gutenberg letterpress from the 15th century

How I Publish — Version 3.0

Avid readers, and those who accidentally stumbled in searching for something else, will have seen deliberations on whether or not to switch platforms.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 1 Jul 2020

How I Publish — Version 2.0

My quest for a publishing platform which was both elegant, unencumbered by endless plug-ins and left me alone with my text, brought me to write.as.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 14 May 2020

The Pied Piper of Zoom

In a sense, our online privacy is much like a child, vulnerable to the world and easily spirited away by a platform which offers ease of connection.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 8 May 2020

Illustration of the Pied Piper by Kate Greenaway