Tekmology. Is it alright?

Teen Sex and Cell Phones

Teen Sex and the Edsel

Teen Sex and Paper

Teen Sex and the Chariot

Greek Mythology

Pandora's Box

Prometheus

Prometheus Technologies

Minotaur

Icarus and Dedalus

Renaissance

Bacon

Bacon's New Atlantis

Cogito Ergo Sum

Early technological innovation

The mechanized clock

Industrial Revolution

Arkwright mill

Luddites

Manchester mills

Mary Barton

William Blake

World Too Much With Us

Thoreau's House

Walden Pond

20c

The Futurists

Vorticism

Brave New World

Lewis Mumford's Three Epochs:

Eotechnic
Paleotechnic
Neotechnic

Pyramids

Ellul

Jacques Ellul's four rules:

First, all technical progress has its price.
Second, at each stage it raises more and greater problems than it solves.
Third, its harmful effects are inseparable from its beneficial effects.
Fourth, it has a great number of unforeseen effects.

McLuhan Festival