ABSTRACT
Since the day in the 1960s when Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001 was first screened in the United States, the role and impact of tools has been a central feature of popular American technology. Of course, tools had played a major role in the development of industrial society since long before the Industrial Revolution in England. As demonstrated by the popular BBC television series “Connections” and its sequel “The Day the Universe Changed,” there has been a long-standing fascination with tools as an extension of man’s inherent capabilities.
