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This introduction revisits Kranzberg's Laws forty years after their publication, asking what they can still tell historians of technology across different generations, geographical contexts, and scholarly traditions. The contributions neither celebrate the laws nor offer a systematic account of the field's development; instead, they critically examine their continuing relevance, limitations, and historical situatedness. The introduction argues that the laws' simplicity is both their weakness and their enduring strength: By reducing complexity, they make historiographical insights accessible and invite debate beyond the discipline. Their legacy therefore lies not only in what they say about technology but in the challenge they pose to historians today: What insights from our own scholarship should we distil and communicate beyond the academy?
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