David Edgerton is a reader in the history of technology at Imperial College, London. His Science, Technology and the British Industrial ‘Decline’ 1870-1970 will come out in May.
There is a fine Scots word for the sale of the contents of a house, farm or factory: a ‘displenishment’. We have certainly witnessed the displenishment of Great Britain.
A new golden age of technological hype seems to be dawning. This January, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a small unfurnished booth cost $24,500. Some 2700 companies proved willing...
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