Capitalist technological history divides into three machine revolutions

Evidence

The fundamental revolutions in power technology — the technology of the production of motive machines by machines — thus appears as the determinant moment in revolutions of technology as a whole. Machine production of steam-driven motors since 1848; machine production of electric and combustion motors since the 90s of the 19th century; machine production of electronic and nuclear-powered apparatuses since the 40s of the 20th century — these are the three general revolutions in technology engendered by the capitalist mode of production since the “original” industrial revolution of the later 18th century. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 127

Categorization

• XREF: Mandel’s three-stage periodization will underpin Jameson’s mapping of realism/modernism/postmodernism onto successive capital stages — central to the reader’s periodization question. — connects to: Capitalist realism reduces historical time to technological upgrades — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1906; Each era produces its own distinct capitalist class; Networked digital technologies spawned by capitalism are enabling its replacement by technofeudalism — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 116 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Capitalist realism reduces historical time to technological upgrades — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1906; Each era produces its own distinct capitalist class; Networked digital technologies spawned by capitalism are enabling its replacement by technofeudalism — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 116 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism breaks the historical link between innovation and shared prosperity #complicates (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 803