Burke's "Connections" series is free online: (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL734BAB2B716CC777 http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL734BAB2B716CC777)

Burke's "Connections" series is free online: (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL734BAB2B716CC777 http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL734BAB2B716CC777) You may also be interested in the forces in society which make technological progress possible — and which kill it. Mariana Mazzucato wrote _The Entrepreneurial State_. David F. Noble wrote a couple books. Also anthropologist David Graeber's essay _Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit_ (http://www.thebaffler.com/past/of_flying_cars http://www.thebaffler.com/past/of_flying_cars) ; you may prefer his talk "On Bureaucratic Technologies & the Future as Dream-Time" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgSJkk1tng http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgSJkk1tng). His video makes the interesting point that since the 1970's, we've focussed on bureaucratic technologies like IT (we fill out forms on the net all day), instead of more imaginative technologies. To compensate, we're good at merely simulating imaginative technologies, like in movies.