Eric Schatzberg

Eric Schatzberg is Professor in the Department of the History of Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specializes in the history of technology. His work has focused on problems of technical choice, along with the cultural and intellectual history of technology. His book Technology: Critical History of a Concept was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018.  This book frames the history of the concept of technology around a tension between instrumental and cultural views of technology. The book traces this tension from its roots in ancient Greece into the mid-twentieth century, when technology became a powerful keyword.