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, February 24, 2024

Postblogging Technology, November 1953, I: Kulturkampf

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: An update from London, where yours truly continues to look for something to do that isn...
Friday, February 16, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1953: Transducer Days

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  With the very low key add for the IBM 650 ,  "the first mass--produced computer in the world,"we take another big step in the di...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Postblogging Technology, October 1953, II: The Warren Court and the Idiots

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Greetings from London, where we only talk about the important things, such as Anthony Ed...
Saturday, February 3, 2024

Postblogging Technology, October 1953, I: Cheque or Cash, It's Easy Money

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R_C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, here we are in London. I am seeing the sights, although a year of this and I might ...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

A Technologo-Scientific and Popular Cultural Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September 1953, II: Soylent Green is Etc!

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  I'm sure everyone has seen 1973's "Soylent Green is People" clip, and the opening credits are actually pretty fun. And a...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September 1953, II: Missing Plugs, Missing Rebuttals

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  Is that a bandwagon going by? Let me hop right on that thing!  I am going to go with the assumption that no-one wants to hear my potted hi...
Saturday, January 13, 2024

Postblogging Technology, September 1953, II: Sweetness, Thorazine, and the Madness of Howard Hughes

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: You will be pleased to hear that Reggie's paper went well, with none of the security...
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