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, May 28, 2020

Postblogging Technology, February 1950, 2: I Have A List

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Almost exactly a month since we last mailed the Palo Alto public health of...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Postblogging Technology, February, 1950, I: Princess (RPN) of Mars

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R_.C., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, you will have noticed that even though Ronnie is out of...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

A Technological But Also Relentlessly Pure Science Appendix to Postblogging January, 1950, II: Beyond Uranus

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As an undergraduate, it was a given that, if the Tsar Bomba was the biggest bomb ever, a californium bomb would be the smallest. I'm...
Friday, May 8, 2020

Plantation of the Atlantic: The City of Regret

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By Jerzy Strzelecki - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2998955 Al-Idrisi  (1100--1165) tells us th...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

A Technological But Also Pure Science Appendix to Postblogging Technology, January, 1944, II: The Secret Life of Stars

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I was not quite 19 when Ronald Reagan made his "Star Wars" speech on 23 March 1983, perfectly prepared by far too much libert...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Postblogging Technology, January 1950, II: Isolate and Sterilise

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: As I'm stationed at the edge of the world, no gossip this time round! Exc...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Postblogging Technology, January, 1950: Straight out of Quarantine

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(In honour of True magazine, some old time science fiction.) R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I bet you wer...
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