{"id":66168,"date":"2025-05-29T19:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=66168"},"modified":"2025-05-31T21:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T19:13:31","slug":"inventions-have-their-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/inventions-have-their-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventions Have Their Day"},"content":{"rendered":"How should we understand Rudolf Steiner\u2019s statements about technology? In search of the power of invention.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRudolf Steiner was very interested in the inventions of his time. When he noticed a zipper on Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven\u2019s tobacco pouch, he said: \u201cWhat a pity that one of us didn\u2019t invent that.\u201d In his Mystery Dramas, he sometimes mentions contemporary developments in inconspicuous places. For example, the engineer Dr. Strader oversees a factory where screws are \u201cthread rolled.\u201d Although this process had already been patented in Glasgow in 1851,Science Museum Group. \u201cThread Rolling Machine, Glasgow<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should we understand Rudolf Steiner\u2019s statements about technology? In search of the power of invention. Rudolf Steiner was very interested in the inventions of his time. When he noticed a zipper on Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven\u2019s tobacco pouch, he said: \u201cWhat a pity that one of us didn\u2019t invent that.\u201d In his Mystery Dramas, he sometimes mentions contemporary developments in inconspicuous places. For example, the engineer Dr. Strader oversees a factory where screws are \u201cthread rolled.\u201d Although this process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9235,"featured_media":66192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11614],"tags":[11658,11659,8814],"class_list":["post-66168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-steiner-as","tag-ausgabe-20-2025-en","tag-english-issue-22-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}