Technological Determinism

Ambivalence towards technology.

Teen Sex and Cell Phones

Teen Sex and the Edsel

Teen Sex and Paper

Teen sex and improved hunting techniques

Greek Mythology

Minotaur

Genetic Engineering

Minoton

Glo-fish

Chimera

Icarus and Dedalus

Pandora

Prometheus

Part Two: Bacon and the Notion of Progress


Bacon

Bacon's New Atlantis

Cogito Ergo Sum

Early technological innovation

The mechanized clock

Left Behind emails

Left Behind

Harryhausen

Industrial Revolution

Arkwright mill

Luddites

"The hand-mill gives you society witht the feudal lord; the steam-mill, society with the industrial capitalist." -- Karl Marx

Romantic

Thoreau's House

Walden

Another House in the Woods

20c

Futurists

Vorticism

Mumford

Three Eras

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.

Butterfly Effect