The only modernist writer who really engaged with technology in fact, is the Italian futurist writer Filippo Marinetti. Marinetti was a Milanese who came to London to perform spoken-word pieces that celebrated machines The glory of airplanes, cars, factories, and machine guns was always the subject of Marinetti's verse. Blinded by his fascination with the clean efficiency of machines Marinetti ended up advocating s the violence of World War and, in the mid-1920s, became an apologist for Mussolini.