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.

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Postblogging Technology, October 1954, I: Brain Child in Long Pants

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: It seems as though I will be writing a fairly short note this week with very little to s...
Friday, January 17, 2025

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIX: Wood For Greeks

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 In the relatively small genre of modern scholarly syntheses of Classical literature and current (as of writing) archaeology on some specifi...
Friday, January 10, 2025

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVIII: Quotidian Huelva

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 Let's round up this quotidian technology-reconstructed-from-debitage (and other garbage) thing.  I have it on the good authority of Car...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

Postblogging Technology, September 1954, II: Teenagers Out of Control!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: So, here we are in Taipei carrying out OPERATION FAN OUT AND TALK EVERYONE OUT OF STARTI...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

The Fall of Rome, VI: Flying Canoes and Revolutionary Santas

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  There's nothing to discourage a guy from amateur FallofRomeism than the "Men think about Rome a lot" thing of a few years ba...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Postblogging Technology, September 1954, I: A Theory of Capital Goods Might Be Just The Thing!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: So let this be a lesson to everyone. If you're ever tempted to make friends with a n...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVII: Ahousat/Huelva

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 Let's see how far we can push this.  Huelva from orbit, and a satellite map of Ahousaht from Google. The conjoint estuaries of the Odie...
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