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Roundtable

Speaking of Shakespeare
With Edward Tenner, One of
Today's Most Original Thinkers


Wednesday, April 18
8:00 PM

Conversation and book signing

Why do our best intentions frequently lead to frustration and dismay? That is the question Edward Tenner poses in Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences. He's now focusing on The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do.      
   Mr. Tenner has long exemplified the counsel of novelist Henry James, endeavoring to be "one of those on whom nothing is lost." That's why his fascinating observations have appeared so frequently in periodicals like The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. It's why Mr. Tenner has benefited from a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as a distinguished visiting scholar at the Smithsonian's Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. And it's why he has lectured in such prestigious settings as AT&T, Microsoft, Penn, Princeton, and the Institute for Advanced Study.      
   In a conversation with John Andrews, Mr. Tenner will discuss a number of issues that were just as important in the playwright's era as they are in our own, among them social inequality and the role it plays in tragedies such as Coriolanus and King Lear.  


THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. A RESERVATION IS NOT REQUIRED.






Edward Tenner
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 8:00 PM
Roundtable