FROM THE SPECIAL BOOKS ISSUE ARCHIVES
26 YEARS AGO
December 1996
“You can’t understand technology without understanding how people think about technology, and, of course, you need to know the bad ideas as well as the good. That’s why I want to insert a recommendation of just one influentially bad book, Thorstein Veblen’s (1921). Veblen ably advocates a leading myth of the machine age: the idea that material technology ‘advances’ because of
