[SIGCIS-Members] "The Hunger Games" Exposes the Myth of Technological Progress

Marie Hicks mhicks1 at iit.edu
Fri Mar 23 13:25:05 PDT 2012


My thoughts exactly, Janet--thanks for passing it along to all of us!

Marie

> Thanks, Marie! This journalist contacted me out of the blue and I didn't have time to respond, but I thought it might be a good chance to get some more historians' voices out there, especially after the whole Washington Post "who invented email" debacle.
>
> best,
> Janet
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Assistant Professor of History of Technology
Lewis Department of the Humanities
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Janet Abbate <abbate at vt.edu> wrote:

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> On Mar 23, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Marie Hicks wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> The article that Janet's reporter contact was writing has been posted. Jolie, Eden, Bernie and I all offered input--nice to see a reporter talking to so many historians of technology for perspective!
>> http://www.innovationnewsdaily.com/987-hunger-games-technologies-progress.html
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>> Best,
>>
>> Marie
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>> Marie Hicks, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor of History of Technology
>> Lewis Department of the Humanities
>> Illinois Institute of Technology
>> Chicago, IL
>> mhicks1 at iit.edu
>> www.mariehicks.net
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