http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/americas-socialist-sports-league-the-nfl/388330/?utm_source=SFG%2B

This reading was very different from our other readings so far and I enjoyed getting this new information to help put the other material into context. Eggerton talks about the shift of materials, from modern to old and how old materials and technologies are replaced even if they still work giving us the famous punchline…

Edgerton’s view of science and technology is one that I had not thought about before. When he explains that technology, innovation, and invention are separate entities. I enjoyed his perspective about the actual need for some technologies. Is it really advancing anything in a nation if it does not improve society as a whole across all…

Techno-nationalism and Creative Industries

I usually try to avoid framing these sorts of reading responses in terms of whether or not I “enjoyed” the reading, but I must say that I really liked Edgerton’s analysis of technology in The Shock of the Old. In particular, his focus on use instead of innovation brings the analysis of technology outside of…

I enjoyed Edgertons book this week. I thought that his dissection of the relations between technologies was very interesting, especially his discussion of the horse. I have always been under the impression that the rise of trains and horses correlated with an immediate decrease in the numbers of beasts of burden. However, as Edgerton points…

Edgerton’s book delivers a great historical analysis of technology throughout the 20th century. His primary argument seems to be the differentiation of invention and implementation, to which he argues are not one in the same, but complementary components of each other. I like how he argues that, “to become widely used, a thing does not…