Daily Archives: September 22nd, 2010
15. Reflections on Technology: Electricity at Home
In its first phase, the impact of the Industrial Revolution was only through its manufactured goods. Whether it was paper or cloth, the locomotive or the telegraph, it was only the final product of technology that the layman witnessed. No new process was introduced into the home. In 1888 something of enormous significance happened. A …
13. Reflections on Technology: Scholarship and technology
Technology has had an enormous impact on human civilization. It has revolutionized human life styles in innumerable ways. In particular, changes of great moment have occurred in human history in the past century or so. Some of the major technological additions to society and to civilization were unheard of and undreamt of just two or …
