Technology, by Request

Bethany is a listener, Patreon subscriber, and member of our Discord community (thanks, Bethany!) who recently requested/suggested a show about how technology affects the Disc’s inhabitants. And yes, it affects them; i.e. it has an effect on them. Affect/effect is a tricky one. (Chorus: Get on with it!!!)

So, here it is. From Twoflower’s iconograph to Dick Simnel’s Iron Girder, a look at how the Disc responded to, and was affected by technology over the course of the books. 

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