THEN AND NOW by John H. Lienhard Click here for audio of Episode 471. Today, I ask if things have really changed in my lifetime. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
W e pass our days adapting to one new technology after another.
No one seems to alter life radically. When the word processor entered my life, it was blessed relief. Yet I would not say that the earth moved on that day. Last night I put myself to sleep by running a mental inventory of such change. It was a shock.