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David Noble is a critical historian of technology, science and education.
He is best known for his seminal work on the social history of automation. After working at MIT and the Smithsonian Institution he currently teaches at York University (Canada)
In late November 2004, at York University, Noble garnered controversy for handing out a small number of information sheets regarding York's principal fundraising body, the York Foundation. Noble alleged that the Foundation "is biased by the presence and influence fo staunch pro-Israel lobbyists, activists, and fundraising agencies", and that this bias affects the political conduct of York's administration in important ways.
Books
- America by design : science, technology, and the rise of corporate capitalism, New York : Knopf, 1977
- Forces of Production: a social history of industrial automation, New York : Knopf 1984, (Paperback Edition: Oxford University Press 1990)
- With Charles Course, Spreadsheets for agriculture, Harlow : Longman Scientific & Technical, 1993
- A world without women : the Christian clerical culture of Western science, New York : Knopf 1992
- Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co. 1993
- The religion of technology : the divinity of man and the spirit of invention, New York : Alfred A. Knopf 1997
- Digital diploma mills : the automation of higher education, New York : Monthly Review Press 2001
About David Noble
Ellen Rose, Technology and Transcendence: A Review Essay on David Nobles The Religion of Technology. The Antigonish Review 116 (Winter 1999), pp. 81-86.
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