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Edward Tenner

Edward Tenner is an independent writer and speaker on the history of technology and the unintended consequences of innovation. He holds a Ph.D. in European history from the University of Chicago and was executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press. A former member of the Harvard Society of Fellows and John Simon Guggenheim fellow, he has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton and has held visiting research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and is a guest for the current academic year at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. He was a founding advisor of Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center, where he remains a senior research associate. read more