01. We live in an era of technological enthousiasm.
02. There is a recurrent theme in the American experience:
that we can cleanse all our past mistakes by opening a new frontier.
03. There is a utopian vision: new technologies will be able
to remedy the problems created by previous technologies.
04. The vision named “the machine in the garden”: industry
and agriculture could peacefully coexist.
05. Edison had achieved in the eyes of the public the status
of a “secular saint” who represented what was best in the American character.
06. The meaning of culture was to know the best that has
been thought and said in the world.
07. The frontier mythology never dies; it just shifts to the
latest technology.
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