Contraptions and culture (r)

How much is our way of thinking shaped by technology?

Associate Professor Roger Osborne from James Cook University joins us to delve into a story about high flying spying antics that raises a lot of questions about how new technological possibilities become integrated into stories.

As history unfolds how do we imagine new futures? And when some of these come to pass, how are stories used to question and explore the ways our society changes?

Mentioned in the episode

The Flying Girl

Eleanor Dark

Featured stories

The Wickham Aeroplane by Francis Marlowe.

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