Forgotten Disruptive Technology
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 | 3:15pm-5:15pm
Details:
June 5, 3:15-5:15 pm
Some of the technologies that have had the greatest impact on catapulting America into prosperity and world dominance are underappreciated, as the telegraph, electricity, airplanes, and computers take center stage. Explore how less appreciated technologies, such as barbed wire and the windmill, had a profound impact on product and labor markets and enabled economic revolutions to come. Retired law professor and law dean and author, Hank Perritt presents a lecture covering specific technologies in terms of their impact, both positive and negative, in terms of who and why invented them, and in terms of the practical organizational and capital structures that enabled them. Free and Open to All.
Hank Perritt: Retired law professor and law dean, author of 25 books and 100 law review articles on law and technology and other subjects. Former member of Telecommunications and Computer Science Board of the National Academic of Sciences. Extra-class radio amateur; commercial helicopter, private instrument airplane, and UAS pilot; patent lawyer.
Open to all.
Location:
The Center
Seats available: 54