Shock Of The OldStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages electrification, motorisation, and computerisation and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time. Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. Shock of the Old forces us to reassess the significance of old inventions such as corrugated

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