Center for Science Writings

The Risks of Safety: When Good Machines Behave Badly

Speaker: Edward Tenner

Date: January 28, 2009

Place: Babbio Center, Room 122
Time: 4 PM

A talk by Technology Historian Edward Tenner. Edward Tenner, a visiting scholar at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, has been called " the philosopher of everyday technology" by National Public Radio. In his acclaimed book Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, Tenner dwelled on technologies that illustrate Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will. In this talk Tenner will discuss cases in which paradoxically, the effort to minimize technology's risks creates new problems.

All CSW events are free and open to the public.
For more information contact John Horgan, Director, The Center for Science Writings: jhorgan@stevens.edu, 201-216-5057 Or check the Center’s website: www.stevens.edu/csw

For more information please contact:

John Horgan
Director, Center for Science Writings
Peirce
Room 307
Phone: 201.216.5057
Fax: 201.216.8245
jhorgan@stevens.edu