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Quick Links and Contact Info. NEW WEBCAST: The Future of News, sponsored by the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy NEW: Town Topics (Princeton, NJ) interview NEW PODCAST: Schmentoring: The Positive Results of Negative People NEW: Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) presents interviews. Why the Future Is Behind Schedule, from the London Review of Books New York Times Op-Ed: Searching for Dummies Scholarship and Libraries in Transition -- Session Webcast from the University of Michigan How Books Bounced -- and Bit -- Back, originally published in the Boston Globe NPR Interview: The Connection (WBUR), "The Grid That Binds" "Unique Approach Opens Up Realm of Research," Princeton Weekly Bulletin TechTV: The Screen Savers (video and book excerpt, "Evolution of the Keyboard") NPR interview (audio): The Diane Rehm Show: Our Own Devices NPR Interview (audio): Dan Charles profiles Edward Tenner NPR Interview (audio): A discussion of invention with Ira Flatow NPR Interview: Recliners WBUR On Point interview (audio) WFMU Interview (audio) with Dorian Devins Business Week Online interview (video): 100 Years of Innovation WNYC Interview (audio) with Leonard Lopate The Lemelson Center CONTACT INFORMATION Selected Works Books Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology Humanity remaking itself through technology Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences The self-cancelling, self-frustrating side of human ingenuity, and what to do about it. Tech Speak: How to Talk High Tech A spoof of jargon. Books/Essays The French Connections The U.S. military-industrial complex's surprising debt to France. Magazine Articles When Systems Fracture On the tendency of advanced technology to promote self-deception A review of James R. Chiles, Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology in Harvard Magazine The Life of Chairs How sitting customs have affected the human body The Xanadu Effect Are big structures harbingers of decline? Lasting Impressions Harvard's debt to the shoe industry Environment for Genius The Harvard Society of Fellows, a history and personal appreciation

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