Technology textsNavigating the site:
White Heat, Carroll Pursell
War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Technology is a spectrum
order 
Means automation machinery systematize sequence self-moving moving parts This spectrum of the means used in production is often employed as an indicator of development in different nations.
Machinery involves moving parts and is often a relation among gears and power sources.
The Archimedian device for lifting water: Archimede's screw; from level "N" up into the chamber "A" .
Examining the relationship between human beings and their technology, and shows how much technology can reveal about the society in which it develops. We see how technology --as a systematic functioning of instruments to attain some purpose-- like language, is fundamental to social organization and is..., one of the enduring symbols of our humanity.
Makes No Sense
"Investigation of the role of technology in the workplace. The transfer of the artisan's skills to a machine with unskilled' operator caused a massive shift in labour relations. Combined with the management theories of mass production, the worker became another replaceable component in the factory, with identity and creative input severely limited."
Step Right Up
"Shows how technology is inextricably involved in our perception of the world around us, particularly that of time and space. The technology with which we organize the world, itself organizes us, just as our culture participates in technology at the same time as being influenced by it."
Dirt and Disorder
Reveals "the way in which technology has often developed in tandem with notions of morality in society. The sewer systems which take away the waste products from the great cities of Europe, are at once a metaphor for the techniques of social control and an actual part of the process. Technology has been instrumental in the human 'conquest' of nature, the implementation of rational structures on the irrational, and as such, is inseparable from our conception of ourselves."
