📖 Curating content on the interaction between technology and culture.

Starting out with some book recommendations: Evolution of Technology by George Bassalla: amzn.to/2Rovi4x presents an evolutionary perspective of the history of technology. This one contributed the infamous term ”skeuomorphism” during the advent of flat UIs.

Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White Jr.: amzn.to/2Rm6eLb White writes some of the most prescient prose:

John Needham’s “Science and Civilisation in China” to date is a 7-volume work in 27 books detailing development of science in China. Here’s an introduction to this work in 144 pages — Science in Traditional China: amzn.to/36bs49S

Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford is an account of impact mechanization had on civilization: amzn.to/2Tsbq2N

Technopoly by Neil Postman is a scathing take on the tradeoffs that emerge in culture with technological development: amzn.to/2Rm6QAt

Taking some twitter notes on this really nice talk by @SamoBurja on Civilization: Institutions, Knowledge and the Future.

Ferment of Knowledge looks like it has some pretty nice essays on how technology and civilization. The one that particularly caught my eye was “Mathematics and Rational Mechanics” by H. Bos: amzn.to/37rOl5r

Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue — Walter J. Ong: amzn.to/34F9x6P Walter Ong locates Ramus as a pivotal figure in the intellectual tradition in that his work paved the way for a eye-oriented/typographic culture from ear-oriented/oral culture.

Thomas Hughes’ book on the role of electric grid on society. Networks of Power (1983): amzn.to/3sw9gyl I was drawn to this book after seeing it being mentioned as one that treats technologies as constituents of systems that interact and shape each other.

Discovered this book on the method of seeking scientific truths as championed in Renaissance period by Neal Gilford: archive.org/details/renaissa…

Found out about “The Mechanization of the World Picture” by E. J. Dijksterhuis which gives a broad history of the evolution of physics: amzn.to/3r5QUlK The original dutch text seems to be available here: dbnl.org/tekst/dijk027mech01…

Discovered Science Since Babylon by Derek de Solla Price, an idiosyncratic take on the history of evolution of science: amzn.to/3ib8N0Z

Found out about “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn” by Lucio Russo — amzn.to/3Op3dsM