Bench Grass

Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Electric City, II: Pedal to the Metal

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Edit: Dryden? Defoe? So similar, they're basically the same guy. D'oh. Oh, heck, why not: I knew an Eisenhower ...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Running Away to the Air, 6: America, What A Country!

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In honour of the Yakov Smirnov of the Twenty-First Century , another actor who lived his role, doing his best to save the unsalvageable:  ...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Fall of France, VI: Traction Avant!

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We live in a world on the verge of chronic underemployment and incipient deflationary spiral. I'd say that it's hard to understand ...
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Friday, May 4, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, VI: Clean Up and Julian the Apostate and the End of Hegemony?

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So I try to be a good historian, the kind that's not always bringing forth Object Lessons to All Modernity.  I'm not trying too...
Friday, April 27, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, V: Not Being Squicky

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Bonus post! This is what comes of having a human amount of time off. So I want to talk about the Roman legion as a generator of social cap...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, V: So What Are Your Options If You're Not?

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When last we left this series, I was playing footsie with the Third Century Crisis. What the heck happened? Well, first off...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, IV: Technological Attenuation

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Today's theme, again, is the bold rejection of a past without painfully shallow but still real curve of population increase, and thus ...
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