In 1915, Henry Adams wrote that he felt completely unconnected and prepared for the machine age. His youth and early adulthood at Harvard and in politics did not give him an “education” to allow him to understand the modern world. It moved too fast with too many new businesses, technologies, and social relations. At a certain point he retreated to his books and his bicycle, overwhelmed by what the world had become.
Imagine you are Henry Adams. It is the 1890s and you feel disillusioned by the world you now live in. What new piece of technology would confuse you the most? Which development made the world the most different from the 1850s? And how could you most easily cope with the changes brought about by this technology?
Write a two-page, double-spaced paper that answers this question. Use sources from the course and quotes properly cited in Chicago style. Your paper is due at the end of the lesson.
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