Technology in America

The American ^ | April 13, 2012 | Michael Sacasas

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

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[samtheman]

Thanks, neverdem. Interesting article, interesting thread.

[1010RD]

Those ingenious Yankees: http://www.amazon.com/ingenious-Yankees-Joseph-Gies/dp/0690011504

Excellent book and a must read for Americans young and old. We cannot afford to forget our pragmatic, entrepreneurial, inventive history.

[1010RD]

Interesting points. Progressivism was born out of the success of the Industrial Revolution. It is abundance and surplus that breed the modern liberal.

What irony and what a counter-intuitive result: plenty breeds resentment and unhappiness instead of gratitude and joy. Such madness...only from the mind of man.

[1010RD]

Capitalism is a part of Natural Law. It’s always existed. It simply gets lost depending on the political structure of a society which can mask or mute it. Rome was woefully behind in economics, though it had great technology. It was the commercial revolution of the Middle Ages that lead to the exploration of the New World, its exploitation and the birth of our great nation.

[1010RD]

Have you read this: Those ingenious Yankees: http://www.amazon.com/ingenious-Yankees-Joseph-Gies/dp/0690011504

[aruanan]

Thanks. Too bad there is no description of any content on the page except for some snarky comments. Have you ever seen the book Fire of Genius: Inventors of the past century : based on the files of Popular science monthly since its founding in 1872? It's pretty good. You can get a hardcover for about $4 on Amazon. Long live technology! Long live business! Long live those who, like Edison, decided they wouldn't invent anything but what they thought people would want (as opposed to his vote-tallying machine for Congress whose members actually didn't want anything quick and efficient because it would get in the way of their bloviating from the Well).

[1010RD]

No I hadn’t. I’ll check it out. I wish I had the time to read everything I want to.

[aruanan]

No I hadn’t. I’ll check it out. I wish I had the time to read everything I want to.

Tell me about it! The hourglass is running out. And all these poor kids thinking they have forever and wasting hours of their life daily playing video games.