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Lee Vinsel: Innovation Fetish (FODI 2016)
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Lee Vinsel is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. He has written broadly about the role of technology in business and everyday life, including his two latest books, The Innovation Delusion: How our obsession with the new disrupts the work that matters most (2020) and Moving Violations: Automobiles, experts, and regulations in the United States (2019). His work has appeared in The New York Times, Aeon, The Washington Post, The American Historical Review, and many other scholarly and popular publications.
Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises.