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

Marie Hicks, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History of Technology Lewis Department of the Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL mhicks1@iit.edu twitter: @histoftech www.mariehicks.net On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Janet Abbate <abbate@vt.edu> wrote:

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.ht...

Best,

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On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Marie Hicks wrote:

The article by Janet's reporter contact with quotes from Joline, Eden, Bernie, and me has been picked up by a bunch of blogs and news aggregators, including the Huffington Post and Discovery News:

It is nice to finally see a decent piece of journalism being picked up and repeated! I only just noticed that Jeremy Hsu, the author of the original article, is a graduate of the History & Sociology of Science department at the University of Pennsylvania and a former student of mine. See, there is a role for undergraduate programs in the history of science and technology! -Nathan -- Nathan Ensmenger School of Information University of Texas at Austin www.ischool.utexas.edu/~nathan/