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ISPS talk will examine positive consequences of technology
Edward Tenner, senior research associate at the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, will speak to the Technology and Ethics Working Research Group on Wednesday, Jan. 12.
Titled "Positive Unintended Consequences of Technology," Tenner's lecture will begin at 4:15 p.m. at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Trumbull St. Dinner and a continued discussion will take place 5:45-7 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Information Society Project at the Law School, the talk is free and open to the public. For information, reading materials and dinner reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Author of "Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences" and "Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity," Tenner is an independent writer and speaker on technology and society.
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has held teaching or research positions at the University of Chicago, the Harvard Society of Fellows, Princeton University, Rutgers University, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Tenner's essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. He is a contributing editor of Harvard Magazine and the Wilson Quarterly, and his column, Megascope, appears each month in Technology Review. Tenner has appeared on CNN, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC Evening News, the O'Reilly Factor and National Public Radio.
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