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History of Technology

1The Invention of Invention 2Printing, Propaganda, and the Democratization of Error 3Navigation, Empire, and the Technology of Conquest 4The Scientific Revolution and Who Gets to Explain the World 5The Industrial Revolution — Machines, Markets, and the Making of the Working Class 6Telegraph to Telephone — When Distance Died the First Time 7Electrification and the Grid — Whose Light, Whose Darkness 8Assembly Lines, Automation, and the Promise of Leisure 9The Bomb — When Technology Became Existential 10Television, Advertising, and the Manufacture of Desire 11The Space Race, the Cold War, and Government as Inventor 12The Personal Computer — Liberation Technology or Neoliberal Tool?13The Internet's Broken Promise 14Platform Capitalism and Enshittification 15Surveillance Capitalism — When You Are the Product 16Artificial Intelligence — Who Teaches the Machines?17The Attention Economy and the Crisis of Knowledge 18Who Decides What Comes Next?19Case Study: Text READY, an Investigation Into the Government's Theory of AI Displacement 20Case Study: The Voluntary Panopticon, How Consumers Built the Surveillance State the Government Couldn't

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