Reviews for Blackbirch Encyclopedia of Science & Invention

The average rating for Blackbirch Encyclopedia of Science & Invention based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-17 00:00:00 Robin Pulley This book was awesome. It tought me alot about how technology from video games to rollercoasters worked. It also talked about the structure of C.D.s and were they store the information. I thought that it was really cool when they talked about how virtual reality (VR) equipment is made. There was also a section about 3D things work. There are two cameras and they project the same picture, but just a little bit off of each other since your eyes see a tiny bit different. The 3D glasses let one eye see one angle of the screen, and the other eye see another angle of the screen, giving it depth and complexity.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-05-22 00:00:00 Carla Thompson Some interesting bits, and his literary analyses are stronger than the attempts at cultural history. Jones is less interested in the Luddites than in their legacy. That is, how they've become mythologized and represented in popular culture -- from Romantic poetry to 1960s counterculture to contemporary anti-globalism movements. He makes some interesting points about the Luddites -- that they weren't simply anti-technology but more anti-capitalist-exploitation, and that they used modes of rather complicated symbolic representation (i.e. making up the leader "Ned Ludd," likening themselves to Robin Hood, and so on). And he reads against the grain, taking pieces that are most often interpreted as simply anti-technology (i.e. Frankenstein and William Blake’s poetry), arguing for more nuanced considerations of science, machinery, and technology.