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.

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1948, II: Santa's Sleigh

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Edit: Oh, heck, I'm leaning in on this one. If you're missing Dolly Parton down at the mall in the midst of all the versions o...
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Saturday, December 22, 2018

Postblogging Technology, October 1948, II: The Dewey System

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R_. C_., The Peninsula, Hong Kong Dear Father: Happy Birthday and many happy returns to your wife! See you Friday! I am da...
Friday, December 14, 2018

A (Mostly) Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1948, I; Hydraulic Despotism

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This was going to be a 100% technological appendix, albeit with a reference to Karl Wittfogel, about this. Then I scanned the election nu...
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Postblogging Technology, October 1948, I: Best Laid Plans

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R._C._ Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, here she is, your future daughter-in-law (she said very, very firmly,...
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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...
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