For over 6000 years Egypt has been a land of ancient legacy. At the very heart and vein of this great legacy lies the Nile River. Over a span of 600 Miles, the Nile River flows from south to north throughout the entire country. As Egypt's annual rain fall rarely exceeds 1 ½ inches, the river is not only Egypt’s main highway, but it is also Egypt's main source of water. At the very head of Egypt’s Nile River lies the great Aswan Dam.

Many things came into play in order to actualize one of the most profound ingenuities of the modern world in its applied form, and the Aswan Dams had a tremendous impact on not only Egypt’s agrarian culture, but on its political structure and geography as well.

This leads us to Arnold Pacey and his philosophical view on the way culture and technology effect each other. In The Culture of Technology, Pacey discusses technology and its relationships to organization and culture. Technology in effect can be directly equated to paradigms, and Pacey looks at how paradigms, organization and culture are all interconnected. Paradigms are accepted and/or changed within specific cultures and organizations, and bring with them expected anomalies. It is important to note, then, that paradigms can change cultural and organizational values as well as the technology that is directly effected.

The triad of organization, technology and culture can also be split into a dyad of expert and user spheres. Experts are the scientists and engineers who develop the technology and distribute them to the users of that technology. Experts are influenced by user factors just as users are influenced by expert factors. Thus, a sort of supply and demand relationship can be observed, where the experts are influenced by the demands, expectations and perceptions of the users and the users are influenced by the knowledge, perceptions and expectations of the experts. The triad and dyad overlap to form a cycle of culture, technology and organization that evolve over time. This evolution empowers all three aspects of the triad to create anomalies, and to accept or reject them as well.

This purpose of this website is to analyze the Old (Low) Aswan Dam using each part of Pacey's triad. There is also an additional section covering the important geographical considerations as well.