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, November 29, 2022

Postblogging Technology, August 1952, II: The Twentieth Century Belongs to Canada!

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R_. C_., c/o M_.C_.,  Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I hope this finds you well and in the hands of Fat Chow in Trail, and not ...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, August 1952, I: The Jersey Turnpike

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 So the original plan was to write Postblogging Technology, August 1952, II: Clever Subtitle, I Wish, this weekend. But then two things happ...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Postblogging Technology, August 1952, I: Attack of the Saucers in 3D!

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: It has been a frantic week as Reggie received last minute instructions ordering him to ...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

The Bishops' Sea: Marine Ecology, Industry Fundamentals, and Ethnogenesis

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  So here is, I think, a pretty basic question suited for a footnote as I gallop through the way that the politics of Sixteenth Century Euro...
Friday, November 4, 2022

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1952: Sites, Science, Consequences

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  There is something romantically fascinating about the Independence I and II Cultures which flourished in the very far north of Greenland ...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Postblogging Technology, July 1952, II:To a Green Suburb Beyond

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I hope that you won't mind the lack of a personal touch this week as Reggie and I ma...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Postblogging Technology, July 1952: Lie a Coward

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R_. C_., The Mayflower, Washington Dear Father: It was so good to see you last night! Uhm, okay, if you ever read this, it will be months fr...
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