Jazz Articles about Electropolis

Electropolis: Electropolis

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
April 24, 2006

Consider two views of technology. 1950s science fiction celebrates the first: new materials, space travel and super computers will rationalize the organization of society, it says, and deliver us from want and suffering. The second is embodied by the tireless tinkering of early twentieth-century inventor George Washington Carver, who developed 300 uses for the peanut. We've got a lot of peanuts around here, this view says; let's see if we can do something useful with them.

Electropolis, the long-playing debut ...