Sound & invention · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
The Hawaiian Technology Inside the Sound of Modern Music
Listen to a steel guitar bend toward a note and you may hear country music.
Hawaiʻi Tech Week review collection · Publication not authorized
Technology looks different from here.
Fourteen evidence-backed story drafts about the networks, instruments, standards, archives, and living systems Hawaiʻi gave the world—and the people too often edited out of the record.
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Networks & communication · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
A Rule Tested Between Hawaiian Islands Changed How Shared Networks Speak
Before a device can send a message, it has to answer a deceptively political question: Who gets to speak when everyone shares the same channel?
Warning systems · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
After Hilo Had No Warning, Hawaiʻi Helped Build a Pacific One
The earthquake had occurred thousands of miles away in the Aleutian Islands.
Law & language · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
When Two Versions of the Law Disagree
The Hawaiian Kingdom governed through laws published in Hawaiian and English.
Archives & search · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
Hawaiʻi Built a Searchable World Before Search Engines
When Hawaiian-language newspaper production declined and ended in 1948, the loss was more than a set of businesses closing.
Language & computing · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
The Two Marks Your Computer Had to Learn
The ʻokina represents a glottal stop and functions as a letter in Hawaiian orthography.
Water & governance · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
The Machine Inside the Mountain
The project therefore did not simply capture rainfall after it entered a ditch.
Indigenous engineering · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
The Gate That Thinks With the Tide
The kuapā curves through Kāneʻohe Bay, built from stone and coral without becoming an impermeable barrier.
Earth systems · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
The Observatory That Turned a Volcano into a Century-Long Signal
A volcano does not announce an eruption in a language made for humans.
Space & infrastructure · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
The Golf Balls Above Kaʻena Point Helped Run America’s First Spy Satellites
From the Waiʻanae coast, the white radomes above Kaʻena Point look almost abstract: two geometric objects placed against a ridge.
Land & data · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
The Lines That Changed the Land
Before land can be sold as a parcel, it must be made legible as one.
Agriculture & biotechnology · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
The Papaya Was Engineered. So Was the Rescue System.
In the most famous version of the story, a virus nearly destroyed Hawaiʻi’s papaya industry.
Ocean energy · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
Hawaiʻi Once Powered a Barge with the Temperature Difference in the Ocean
On August 2, 1979, a barge floating off Keāhole Point generated electricity from a resource that surrounds Hawaiʻi in layers.
Standards & time · Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi
Hawaiʻi Once Ran on a Half-Hour the Continent Forgot
How longitude, law, war, communications and software built the time displayed on Hawaiʻi’s clocks.
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