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Information on the Remembering Second World War Technologies: Museums, Exhibitions, Technological Objects, and Visitors, a conference organized by the Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde in Peenemünde, Germany from March 22-23, 2018 is presented. Topics discussed include history of technology, history of German politics and Germany in World War II.

The article discusses political and scholarly debates about the social acceptance of technology and technological innovations in West Germany in the late 1970s and 1980s. The author suggests that the political center-right and allied business interest groups described political and economic opposition to their policies as technophobia, despite social science research to the contrary. Issues considered include public opinion regarding nuclear power, the beginnings of the green movement in Germany, and skepticism concerning computer and information technology.

The article reports on a conference on the history of technology in the 1970s and 1980s, held in Bochum, Germany, from February 14-15, 2013. Topics of discussion included the effect of the Cold War on technology and politics, the military planning and forecasting for the event of nuclear war, and the symbolic role of consumer goods and household appliances in the Cold War confrontation between capitalism and Communism.

The article discusses the history of attitudes toward technology and technological innovations among the German working class and labor movement since the 19th century. The author focuses primarily on the history of the philosophy of technology in Germany and its relationship to social and economic change. Other topics addressed include the connections between technology attitudes and social class, political ideologies, and the overall state of industrial relations, as well as the impact of Fordism, post-Fordism, and globalization.