How technology Controls our Lives

1666 • The plague and followed by the great fire of London.
1780 • Watt's steam engine improvements.
1801 • The atomic model of chemical elements.
1830 • The earliest railways in England
1905 • Nettie Stevens discovered the Y chromosome; Einstein's description of the photo-electric effect, brownian motion, & relativity.
1916 • The general theory of relativity.
1942 • The first nuclear chain (fission) reaction occurred in Chicago.
1953 • The molecular structure of nucleic acid explained.

Technology disturbs whatever it engages. How that disturbance is managed is really up to us and those who use the tools.

Files with notes related to technology on this site,

Clarify | Organize | Reflect | Examine

Course overview and Techological Complexes

The Syllabus | Technology class calendar |readings | Timeline

Pacey | Pursell | Postman | Kaku

	Tulips as tools?
	Tools of Toil: what to read.
	Tools are historical building blocks of technology.
Technology can be understood if tools have three facets.
Tools used in both Music and Architecture led to mechanization and automation.
Tools and the study of technology require us to reflect on the power of instruments,

A comprehensive overview of the history of technology

Arkwright and textiles

History of Technology: weekly questions to answer on line

Nanotechnology related pages.
Technology implies politics.
Technology possesses three related planes of extisence [diagram]
Technology subjects overview of key ideas.
Technology from both Organizational and Reflective points of view.
Technology that sustains Modern Conditions connecteds.
Technological Periods in history.
Technological Complex explored that maintains urban conditions.
TechnologyComplexContented.html

Technological Change.

Technology disturbs the staus quo.

Technological Conditions examined and analyzed.

Technology class home page.
Technological experiences according to Arnold Pacey (physicist) have meaning
Technocracy an Overview od the assertion ny Postman.
Technological laws by Melvin Kranzberg.
Technolgy and freedom, liberty and independence.
Technology history homework.
The History of technology as a Matrix of meaning.
The History of technology explained and briefly described.
technology defined several ways.
Technology: Conclusion, what humane values are changed or ptomoted?
Technology as component parts in a complex and as a Complete review.
The history of technology: Chronological Terms.l

time as the driver of techniligica,changes sove 1500,

Tools of Toil Readings:

Arnold Pacey -- Pacey's argument: there are Three Dimensions or sides to tools and technology

Pacey Technology in World Civilization
PAceyTWCOverview.html
PaceyTWCIntro.html
PaceyTWC9RailRoadEmpires.htm
PAceyTWC8Guns&Rails.html
PaceyTWC6-7.html

Pacey on Meaning in Technology.
PaceyOne.html
PaceyMeaning1to9.html
PaceyMeaning1.html
PaceyMeaning2.html
PaceyMeaning3.html
PaceyMeaning4.html
PaceyMeaning5.html
PaceyLastCH9.html

PaceyGender.html

PaceyDimensions.html: PaceyDimensionsTechUPSIDE.jpg

Pacey4Socialmeanings.html
Pacey2visual.html
Pacey,MeaningintheHands.htm

Neil Postman --

PostmanThesis.html
ThamusStory.html
PostmanWorld.html
PostmanTwo.html
PostmanThesislong.html
PostmanSummary.html
PostM-termQuestTechnopoly.html

Carrol Pursell -- White Heat, PursellChapters.html

Pursell's analytical methodology

PursellSUMPower.html
PursellPromptTimeOrgan.html
PursellArguSciTech.html
Pursell_CH1_page14.html
Pursell2Out.html
PursellCH3Step.html
PursellClubSciTech.html
PursellLastCybesex.html

All tools possess three facets or dimensions of influence in our lives.
Tools involved in Music and Architecture drove mechanization.
Tools explored and explained.
Tools force us to reflect on how well we use their power to affect changes.

Related pages:

Prometheus.

Technology and stories

Two Cultures, by C. P. Snow

Genetic Engineering as a technology

David Bainbridge, The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls our Lives, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003).

The original relation of science and technology

genes | Evelyn Keller | genetic resistance | human genome | Pursell | Postman | Kaku