Technological advances are going to take away basically all of our jobs. This workless future should frighten all of us. It certainly worries Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla. To say.
On October 28, 1793, Eli Whitney submitted a patent for his invention known as the cotton gin. Perhaps more than any technology in American history, this invention profoundly revolutionized American.
I am always amused by the idea that technology will set us free from the hassles of work. Talk about utopian. The reality is that technology chains us to our.
I've long thought GMOs were the most overrated scary issue current liberals care about. But I never quite had the right words. Mark Bittman does: Then there are G.M.O.'s: OMG.
On August 9, 1910, the first patent was issued for the electric washing machine. I am going to use this seemingly random event as a jumping off point to explore.
Walter Cronkite previews the office of 2001, in 1967. Marissa Mayer would obviously disapprove. Working from home! Of course, Cronkite couldn't imagine a woman in this office. Via
I gave an interview to a newspaper journalist the other day who wanted some information about Occupy Wall Street in the context of the history of American social movements. One.
Although I don't identify as a historian of technology per se, I have presented at the Society for the History of Technology before. And the technologies I deal with in.
