Remembering the Space Age. - Black Vault Radio Network (BVRN)

202 reMeMBerINg the SpaCe age
of “second nature,” of the complex ways in which spacefight and culture have
been mutually reconfgured.
at the beginning of the Space age, applications stood as the stepchild of
the more glamorous meta-narrative of human exploration. over the 1970s and
1980s she came to supplant her parent and helped make a new realm of meaning
and experience—her own world, a second nature, a new chapter in the saga of
the machine and the garden.