![]() ![]() ![]() In explaining their significance, 'The Shock of the Old' radically revises our understanding of the relationship between technology and society. These important but uncrecognised examples of technology range from Spanish synthetic petrol to Egyptian fighter jets from Japanese rickshaws to Nazi factory whaling ships from American gas chambers to the meat factories of the River Plate and from Soviet tractors to Turkish battleships. It reassesses the significance of the technologies usually held to be transformative - from the Pill and information technology to aviation and the atomic bomb - and places alongside them a huge variety of technologies from all around the world. "This global account of the history of technology casts aside the usual stories of what a few people invented and instead analyses what people and societies use. ![]()
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