I'm enjoying this book much more than Postman - I love history and have enjoyed reading about technology in the past. Of course, it has not been the technology I once thought of - mills, farming, factories those all were the first technology. I was also astounding to see that the first time the word technology was used was in 1831, and the first journal for technology wa sin 1959. I think that with all the advances in technology such as the ereaders, iPads, computers, ect, I forget what the first technology was such as the printing press and the first light bulb. Boy! we have come a long way!
Dr. Lowell stated in one of his postcasts that Hughes compares technology to God in this book. I don't necessarily think that he is comparing technology to God, I believe he is just stating facts that years ago people such as the Pilgrams and Indians had such a faith in God that they felt everything they had was a gift from God. I will try to explain myself a little better, but the way my mind rambles I can't promise any clarity will come about from it! In the 16th century earlier and later in years people had a strong faith in God. If their crops needed rain they prayed and if it rained God brought the rain. I believe that every advancement they made from farming tools to household tools were inspired and granted to them from God. However, if you sit down and really think about it, God gave the people that invented these items the wisdom to do so therefore they really did come from God in a way. So, if I have made any sense at all I think Hughes is giving us a good history lesson then comparing technology to God
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