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.

Thursday, November 29, 2018

A Talking Around Technology Appendix To Postblogging Technology, September, 1948: Malthus, Soil and Farming

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Last time around, I emphasised that there was a "culture-involved talking around technology" issue bound up the discussion of...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018

A Partly Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September, 1948: Peanuts and People

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Jute stalks, drying. By Auyon - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16936026 We have a bunch of thi...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Postblogging Technology, September 1948, II: Go A-Viking

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Ronnie emphatically did not miss the Standard Oil strike riot, but does...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Postblogging Technology, September 1948, I: First Farnborough

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(A little early, but Fortune follows up on the home heating industry this month.) R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear ...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

The Bishop's Sea: Brattahlid

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This is  Tasiusaq, Greenland , from Google Maps. Tasiusaq is a settlement of 90 people, surrounded by three sheep farms, and not exactly ...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Postblogging Technology, August 1948, II: Fall Is Coming

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dearest Father: You will perhaps notice the lack of a 16 August Time. A funny story about...
Monday, October 15, 2018

A Meta-Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, August 1948, I: Productivity, Again

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Fortune's August, 1948 article on working in August, which couldn't have been written in August, but might have been inspired b...
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