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History of Technology
1The Invention of Invention2Printing, Propaganda, and the Democratization of Error3Navigation, Empire, and the Technology of Conquest4The Scientific Revolution and Who Gets to Explain the World5The Industrial Revolution — Machines, Markets, and the Making of the Working Class6Telegraph to Telephone — When Distance Died the First Time7Electrification and the Grid — Whose Light, Whose Darkness8Assembly Lines, Automation, and the Promise of Leisure9The Bomb — When Technology Became Existential10Television, Advertising, and the Manufacture of Desire11The Space Race, the Cold War, and Government as Inventor12The Personal Computer — Liberation Technology or Neoliberal Tool?13The Internet's Broken Promise14Platform Capitalism and Enshittification15Surveillance Capitalism — When You Are the Product16Artificial Intelligence — Who Teaches the Machines?17The Attention Economy and the Crisis of Knowledge18Who Decides What Comes Next?19Case Study: Text READY, an Investigation Into the Government's Theory of AI Displacement20Case Study: The Voluntary Panopticon, How Consumers Built the Surveillance State the Government Couldn't
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The Invention of Invention

Everything you think you know about invention is shaped by stories told much later, by people with reasons to tell them that way.

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