This is a HeadGum podcast.

Hello and welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Kahnover, thank you so much for joining me

on the show again, you know, whatever room you're sitting in right now, I want to blow

your mind because you're not just surrounded by walls and furniture and whatever appliances

you picked up at Home Depot, you are surrounded by history.

Okay, I know that sounds a little dramatic, but it is literally true, okay?

All that stuff around you is built layer after layer from human invention, discovery and

ingenuity stretching back thousands of years.

You know, we tend to think of technology today in terms of screens and chips and apps

that let you swipe right on a picture of a guy holding a fish because you do not want

to date him, but that is just the bias of our present moment.

Technology really means the nails that hold your walls together, the plumbing that fills

your thirsty, thirsty toilet, the wild range of gizmos that miraculously combine to make

a fucking dishwasher.

That is all technology too.

How we make the things that have power and give us power over the world is an important

chunk in the edifice of human knowledge.

See, on this show, we've actually done you a little bit of a disservice so far because

we've covered everything from biology to philosophy to history, but we've avoided engineering

as a field of human knowledge and engineering is very special field because it's the one

that's dedicated to solving practical physical problems.

Technology involves math and physics, but many of its earliest inventions were made without

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