BTP January Meetup

[Boston Tech Poetics]

Join us January 27th to learn how thousands of 1930s NEETs turned a tool for 19th-century imperial expansion into a force for 20th-century public good—and see how their work is still visible from the air nearly a century later thanks to several technologies with similarly questionable origins. We’ll explore the curious history of mosquito control ditching, its unintended ecological consequences, and whether it can offer us any lessons for the fight against climate change. This talk is unofficially brought to you by BAE Systems, the V-2 rocket program, the CIA, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the movie Snowpiercer, and 75 Great Pyramids’ worth of swamp dirt.