• fall of Roman empire leads to need for local self-sufficiency leads to different irrigation systems
  
• look at a technological change and ask what happened in society that shaped that change
• in Britain people moved to cities (looking for work, because the empire caused the economy to shift towards trade) leading to running out of waterpower and the steam engine becoming more important
• what cultural issues shaped household technology?
• the consumer revolution
• gender roles increasing said women's place was in the home and educated women looked to use their education
• fewer people were willing to work as servants
  
• end of World War II led to the overwhelming dominance of the suburban pattern of living and the automobile
• how did slavery shape technology--in the US slaves rarely had incentive or opportunity to use their own creativity to improve their work therefore technological progress was slower in the south than the north
• end of slavery in the US led to people who looking to make money in the south investing in industry rather than slaves leading to Anderson SC having the first AC electrical system or the movement of textile mills from the north to the south
  

ok if one example comes from two books so long as you make substantial use of three books
be careful that you are looking at how culture shapes technology, not vice versa
reflect in your conclusion on the idea that culture shapes technology