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Posted: 2025 Sep 13
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In the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution was one of several revolutions that overturned society. Mechanical creatures intruded into farms and homes, but still this invasion had no name. Finally, in 1802, Johann Beckmann, an economics professor at Gottingen University gave this ascending force its name [technology] . . . He hoped his outline [a textbook titled Guide to Technology] would become the first course in the subject. It did that and more. It also gave a name to what we do. Once named, we could now see it. Having seen it, we wondered how anyone could not have seen it.
Source: What Technology Wants, by Kevin Kelly, ch 1
Posted: 2025 Sep 13Poetry of the Week
Roses, Late Autumn
I would be a fox, or a tree
full of waving branches.
I wouldn’t mind being a rose
in a field full of roses.Fear has not yet occurred to them, nor ambition.
Reason they have not yet thought of.
Neither do they ask how long they must be roses, and then what.
Or any other foolish question.Read the whole poem by Mary Oliver, here.
The Glory of the Garden
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing:–“Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knivesRead the whole poem by Rudyard Kipling, here.
Posted: Sep 13
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