To Solve Everything, Click Here – Evgeny Morozov
I first came across Evgeny Morozov via the computer history mailing list SIGCIS. In essence, Morozov had written a New Yorker piece which drew heavily on the work of the…
Tag: history of technology
#Brexit, the populist surge and the crisis of complexity — Paul Arbair
Thank you Paul Arbair who commented on a brief reference in my post on Joseph Tainter to Brexit in Tainterian (sic) terms with a link to his own far far far…
From Preface to “Medieval Technology and Social Change”, Lynn White Jr.
Voltaire to the contrary, history is a bag of tricks which the dead have played upon historians. The most remarkable of these illusions is the belief that the surviving written…
Review of “Through A Distant Mirror Darkly”, by Mark Lord. SF Site 2014
I read Tim Severin’s The Brendan Voyage over the last few days – a wonderful adventure story and a stirring depiction of how medieval technology was adapted to the conditions it faced.…
Séamus Sweeney 