关于作者

本书写于 1984年

作者为 David F. Noble (1945-2010)

1984之前，在MIT教书，然后因为组织人对抗大学管理层这种左派行径被开了，并冠以"反技术"的帽子被一些大学拒之门外。

好像1986年才重新找到工作，执教于约克大学。

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F._Noble

其作品:

• America By Design; Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism, New York: Knopf, 1977, ISBN 978-0-394-49983-3, LCCN 76047928
• Forces of Production; A Social History of Industrial Automation, New York: Knopf, 1984, ISBN 978-0-394-51262-4, LCCN 83048867
• Smash Machines, Not People!; Fighting Management's Myth of Progress, San Pedro: Singlejack Books of Miles & Weir, Ltd, 1985, ISBN 978-0-917300-17-2, LCCN 84052662
• A World Without Women; The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science, New York: Knopf, 1992, ISBN 978-0-394-55650-5, LCCN 91023073
• Progress Without People; In Defence of Luddism, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1993, ISBN 978-0-88286-218-7
• Progress Without People; New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance, Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 1995, ISBN 978-1-896357-01-0, LCCN 95172673
• The Religion of Technology; The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention, New York: Knopf, 1997, ISBN 978-0-679-42564-9, LCCN 96048019
• Digital Diploma Mills; The Automation of Higher Education, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-58367-061-3, LCCN 2001057931
• Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth, Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-897071-01-4, LCCN 2005482537