Edward Tenner (born 1944) is a researcher at Princeton University and former editor at Princeton University Press. Tenner is also a technology writer who currently writes a column named "Megascope" for "Technology Review". He has written several books on the effects of technology on everyday life. Wikipedia
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"Within the discourse of the body, Tenner is Dr. Johnson, refuting Bishop Berkeley's solipsism by kicking a stone in the street. He is also an American original, a historian of technology with an unparalleled fund of knowledge about ordinary things--from www.edwardtenner.com/