Send in the Blogs… The World’s Fair.

The World’s Fair is a newish blog that is one half Benjamin Cohen, an assistant Professor of STS at Virginia Tech (the other half is David Ng, a molecular biologist at UBC). One thing that has been immediately interesting is his interviews with young scholars: a really excellent intro to the history of Nanotechnology with Cyrus Mody (a new colleague of mine at Rice and Historian/Sociologist of Nanotech) and a recent one with Saul Halfon who has just published a book about demography, population control and “regime change in population policy.” The interviews are short but enlightening and I certainly hope he keeps it up…

Christopher Kelty does anthropological and historical research on science and technology, free and open source software, intellectual property and open access, the history of software, and the ethics and politics of nanotechnology. He also teaches classes about all of these things. From 2001 to 2008 he was assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University, in Houston, TX. He know teaches at UCLA and splits his time between the Information Studies department, the Anthropology Department and the Center for Society and Genetics.