Technology in the Post Modern Age: A Conversation with John Lienhard

We were in a kind of dark age.  If during the age of technology the world was drunk on possibilities, the post-modern world of the second half of the 20th century was terrified by the horrors of technology. If the earlier Age of Technology was outward and expansive, post-modern technology is inward and compressed. Early 20th century people dreamed of flying cars and television phones. Now that we can build these devices, the interest is no longer there.