ABSTRACT
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that as a culture we are obsessed with almost every aspect of technology In fact, a rocket scientist would probably not recognize quite so immediately the multifarious ways in which “high” scientific theory and engineering get disseminated as technological wizardry in the artifacts of everyday life. I am not a rocket scientist, nor do I play one in academic settings that encourage interdisciplinary exchanges between the sciences and humanities. 1 I am, however, interested in the varied representations of technologies in popular culture, particularly as they reflect ideological formations. I admit that my familiarity with the technical aspects of electronic discourse is lamentable. As an interloper in the field, however, my poaching on these territories may prove useful if only to help identify and articulate how those of us not belonging to the rarefied group of rocket scientists—or other such assemblies of cultural privilege—read technology.
