Every era has its gods — the powerful entities that people routinely turn to for protection, provision and personal fulfillment. In our era that god is technology.Technology has achieved ascendancy in this generation, at least in the West, but it began its rise to power in the Renaissance. The advance of crank and connecting rod technology, the inventions of the flywheel and the navigational compass, and preeminently the invention of the printing press transformed the cultural [...]
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