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Langdon
Winner is a political
theorist who focuses upon
social and political issues
that surround modern
technological change. He is
the author of Autonomous
Technology, a study of the
idea of
"technology-out-of-control"
in modern social thought,
The Whale and The Reactor: A
Search for Limits in an Age
of High Technology, and
editor of Democracy in a
Technological Society.
Praised by The Wall Street
Journal as "The leading
academic on the politics of
technology", Mr. Winner was
born and raised in San Luis
Obispo, California. He
received his B.A., M.A. and
Ph.D. in political science
from the University of
California at Berkeley. He
is Professor of Political
Science in the Department of
Science and Technology
Studies at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in
Troy, New York. He has also
taught at The New School for
Social Research, M.I.T.,
College of the Atlantic, the
University of California at
Santa Cruz, and the
University of Leiden in the
Netherlands, and has
lectured widely throughout
the United States and
Europe. In 1991-1992 he was
visiting research fellow at
the Center for Technology
and Culture at the
University of Oslo, Norway.
During the spring semester
of 2001, he will be Hixon-Riggs
Visting Professor of
Science, Technology and
Society at Harvey Mudd
College in Claremont,
California.
Mr. Winner is past president
of the Society for
Philosophy and Technology. A
sometime rock critic, he was
contributing editor at
Rolling Stone in the late
1960s and early 1970s and
has contributed articles on
rock and roll to The New
Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians and The
Encylopaedia Britannica. At
present he is doing research
and writing on a book about
the politics of design in
the contexts of engineering,
architecture and political
theory. Another book, a
collection of essays on
technology and human
experience, is also
underway.
Mr. Winner's views on
social, political and
environmental issues appear
regularly in Tech Knowledge
Revue, published in the
on-line journal "NetFuture".
Source:
http://www.rpi.edu/~winner/BIO.html
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