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Toward a new, qualitative science. My primary undertaking right now is a critique of conventional science with a view toward establishing the foundations of a new, qualitative science. The project, which requires an extraordinarily radical assessment of contemporary habits of thought, is headquartered here.

My latest book is Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines. You will find more information about the book here , and can read the introduction here. In addition, I have, with Craig Holdrege, co-authored Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering, which received an excellent review in the September 2008 issue of Nature Biotechnology. It can be ordered either from the University Press of Kentucky or from The Nature Institute bookstore".

Most of my shorter writings—several hundred articles—have appeared in the online NetFuture newsletter, which I have been producing since 1995. These are accessible via the NetFuture topical index. There are also per-issue indexes for each year, which you can get to from the NetFuture main page.

The book reviews you find here are my doing unless otherwise marked.

All the chapters from my earlier book, The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst, are available in full text. There are also collected excerpts from reviewers' comments (as well as a couple of full-text reviews), and a complete, well-annotated table of contents. View book online.

Likewise, the chapters from my two booklets, Extraordinary Lives: Disability and Destiny in a Technological Age, and In the Belly of the Beast: Technology, Nature, and the Human Prospect are available in full text. Much of the content of these booklets was assimilated to Devices of the Soul, mentioned above.

I also have a collection of miscellaneous papers and addresses, several of them unpublished. These cover diverse topics, including computers in the classroom, orality and literacy in the electronic age, Goethean science, the thought of Owen Barfield, and the limitations of a technological understanding of the human heart.

List of talks, workshops, and conference presentations.

Last revision: October 7, 2008