Patrick McCray Calls For More Attention to Societal Implications of Technology

CNS News

"We are dulled, lulled, and anesthetized by arguments from tech intellectuals that too often are glib, Panglossian, or in service of a corporate agenda," W. Patrick McCray writes in an opinion piece published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 10. A historian and CNS principal investigator, McCray calls for a richer body of research that assesses the historical contexts of technological innovation and thinks through the societal implications of new technologies. The entire article can be read at the link below.