6/30/2023 0 Comments Shock of the old edgerton![]() ![]() Indeed, many highly touted technologies, from the V-2 rocket to the Concorde jet, have been costly failures, while many mundane discoveries, like corrugated iron, become hugely important around the world. He challenges us to view the history of technology in terms of what everyday people have actually used-and continue to use-rather than just sophisticated inventions. ![]() Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising our ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. ![]() Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clichéd claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. ![]()
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