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.

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Postblogging Technology, September 1946, II: Progress Comes in Waves

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I  hope this letter finds you not atomically-blasted to...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Postblogging Technology, October 1946, I: A Loss Leader

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R_.C_.,  Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: I hope that this letter finds you peacefully at home in front...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

Speculating About Population Change in the Peri-Contact Old Northwest: Floating Tom Has Taken His Last Dive

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"Floating Tom Hutter" is a character in  The Deerslayer: Or, The First Warpath   [1841], the James Fenimore CooperLeatherstoc...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

In Silliness, Truth: A Snooperscoping Appendix to August 1946, II

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August is the "silly season." Congress, and everyone else, is on vacation (some people will go on road trips in the Canadian Rocki...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Postblogging Technology, August 1946, II: A Prolegomena To Any Possible Teeny-Weeny Yellow Poka-dot Bikini

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R_.C._, Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: I hope that you are not surprised to hear from me so quickly, for yo...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Flowing Forward: A Technological Appendix for Postblogging August 1946, I.

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(Edited 24 September 2016). Robert Solo was a Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, East Lansing, for many years. His so...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Postblogging Technology, August 1946, I: Drones and Continuous Flow

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R_.C_., Leland Hotel, Nakusp, Canada My Dearest Reggie: Well, your daughter-out-of-law is off to Hong-Kong, and you are s...
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