W Patrick McCray
Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
W Patrick McCray is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of four books, including the prizewinning The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future (2012) and Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (2020). He lives in Santa Barbara and Fort Collins.
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Art
The art of survival
The Harrisons’ eco-art told stories about the apocalypse, pointing to a future where we’d all have to be survival artists
W Patrick McCray
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History of technology
It’s not all lightbulbs
If we abandon the cult of the Great White Innovator, we will understand the history of technology in a much deeper way
W Patrick McCray