
Is technology making us more or less intelligent?
The smartphone in your hand enables you to record a video, edit it and send it around the world. With your phone, you can navigate in cities, buy a car, track your vital signs and accompl...
Jonathan Coopersmith is a historian of technology at Texas A&M University. He has written about the history of the fax machine (FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine was the co-recipient of the 2016 Business History Conference Hagley Prize for best book in business history), failure and technology, Russian electrification, pornography and communications technologies, and the role of frothy and fraudulent firms in emerging technologies.