By Thomas DeGregori
During this provocative paintings, Thomas DeGregori explores some of the innovative technological advances of the earlier century, specifically these in agriculture.
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According to Ong (1982), Plato thought of writing as ‘‘an external, alien technology, as many people today think of the computer’’ (81). ’’ Students will no longer ‘‘need to exercise their memories, being able to rely on what is written’’ and, horror of horrors, they will lose ‘‘wisdom’’ because pupils ‘‘will be widely read without benefit of a teacher’s instruction’’ (Plato 1956, 68). The idea that we will lose ‘‘something’’ because of a new technology has been with us since Plato and probably before him.
The steel pen, which everyday recorded the images, means, and ideas of the new era’’ (790–92). Steel pens were better and cheaper than other writing instruments, and fell dramatically in price during Blake’s lifetime. 02, and after mid century, for less than a farthing’’ (794). The steel pen was part of a larger process in the Industrial Revolution that facilitated ‘‘a new accessibility of artists’ materials to the amateur market . . ’’ Due to new technologies, they became standardized, manufactured, marketable products.
The steel pen was part of a larger process in the Industrial Revolution that facilitated ‘‘a new accessibility of artists’ materials to the amateur market . . ’’ Due to new technologies, they became standardized, manufactured, marketable products. Howard adds, Machine-made papers, grease and graphite pencils, steel pens, bottled inks and etching grounds, sticks of pastel chalk and watercolor, and premixed paints in tubes were easier, quicker, and more reliable to use than their forerunners and lent themselves to modern interests in clear, simplified, and brilliant effects (793).