Hey look up Jean Gimpel, "The Medieval Machine: the Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages." The Preface says something very close to a point you make:
"Our Western civilization has seen the development of two parallell systems of education--that of the mechanical arts for engineers, and that of the liberal arts for men of letters. These are the two cultures of C.P. Snow. Historians steeped in the prejudices of the liberal arts have rarely thought it worthwhile to cross the gap in order to study or write the history of the mechanical arts, the history of technology."
But then, he also says:
"We are witnessing a sharp arrest in technological impetus. No more fundamental innovations are likely to be introduced to change the structure of our society...
Jean Gimpel
London
1975"
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