Vocabulary

Chronological order of examples is important.

1. Aechulean hand ax
2. “division of labor,”
3. segmentation
   
4. sequencing
5. mechanization,
6. analog clocks
7. Renaissance,
8. visual thinking,
9. Cartesian grid,
10. automata
    
11. “interchangeable parts,”
12. “The American System of Manufactures,”
    
13. zoetrope
14. telegraph
    
15. telephone
    
16. time discipline,
17. "reduce people to their smallest meaningful parts.”
    
18. digital clocks,
19. lasers
    
20. Computer viruses
21. Pacey’s three dimensions of tool use: Technical | Organizational | Metaphorical
22. bar code reader

Exaptation

Authors:

The Two Cultures

Pursell | Pacey–World | Postman | Head | Tenner |Pacey–meaning| Eberhart | Snow | Kaku | Boulding | Delillo | Kranzberg

| Postman–Tech | Postman–Television |

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