I have written three books:
- Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change, The MIT Press (2002)
- See and get this book at [The MIT Press] [Amazon.com] [Powells.com]
- Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination, The MIT Press (1990)
- A second edition will be forthcoming in Spring 2008 from The MIT Press, with a new Afterword.
- See and pre-order this new edition at [The MIT Press] [Amazon.com] [Powells.com]
- Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France, University of California Press (1982)
- See and get this book at [Amazon.com] [Powells.com]
Cover image for the upcoming
second edition of Notes on the Underground
Some of my other writings include:
- My 2006 SHOT Presidential Address on “Matrix Reloaded” and the city of Las Vegas: “Opening the Big Box”
- The afterword to Manuel Castell’s The Network Society: A Cross-cultural Perspective (2004)
- “A Technological World We Can
Live In” [Full-text HTML]
- Or view: [Project MUSE: HTML] [Project MUSE: PDF]
- An essay on Mumford’s
Technics and Civilization [Full-text HTML]
- Or view: [Project MUSE: HTML] [Project MUSE: PDF]
- “Roots and Routes: Living in a Technological World” [Full-text HTML]
- “‘All That is Solid
Melts into Air’: Historians of Technology in the Information
Revolution” [Full-text HTML]
- Or view: [Project MUSE: HTML] [Project MUSE: PDF]
This page was last updated on January 14, 2008.
Website problems should be addressed to me at rhwill@mit.edu.