Overview

Now, more than ever, Americans are acutely aware that technology shapes their everyday lives. Personal computers, the Internet, and the Y2K scare have driven home the point. But, of course, the relationship between technology and culture is nothing new. At SIMS, our focus is on this relationship within the American South. For southerners, the question of technology and culture - of industrialization and society - seems even more complicated that in the rest of the nation. With their traditional commitments to rural ideals (or, more recently, suburban ideals), southerners have long denied the relationship between industrialization and their regional culture. Our programs at SIMS bring interest and clarity to that relationship, past and present.