How Technology Enables Individualism: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Through her Little House series of books, author Laura Ingalls Wilder became one of the leading exponents of self-reliance. The original eight volumes depict life growing up on a frontier family homestead during the 1870s and 1880s. I first read these books as an adult, fascinated by Ingalls Wilder’s detailed description of how her father built a log cabin in Little House on the Prairie.
Technology is, at its most basic level, simply the application of knowledge. Ingalls Wilder’s books are filled with great examples of…