The history of technology is not simple.

"A Discourse on Tools " is my advocating that any technology is a related set of tools acting as a means of knowing. And if placed in the correct contexts reveal important values and not just changes in behavior, trends, and fashions.

Thamus story as Postman's rhetorical means of:

• casting doubt on opinions about inventions, and

• knowing the world with a mechanistic and analytical method

I hope to remove unexamined biases from your beliefs about technology.