• The Elephant, the Spaceship and the White Cockatoo: An Archaeology of Digital Photography

However, in spite of overwhelming evidence that society is not shaped by the inevitability of technological progress, determinist explanations retain their seductive glamour and rhetorical force. To use Leo Marx's example, this kernel of unarguable fact is like the sunset reflected in the water of the Mississippi. He cites Mark Twain, who began life as an apprentice river pilot.