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David E. Nye was born in Boston and spent his childhood in rural Pennsylvania, and became a fan of the Red Sox and the Pirates. He was educated at Amherst College, where he sang in several groups, and he completed a PhD in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, where he sang in a Renaissance ensemble on the side. He has taught in the US, Britain, Spain (on a Fulbright), and Denmark, where he now lives and has been a member of several choirs. His more than 220 publications include more than 25 books and 101 articles, in the fields of history, non-fiction, and literature. As a specialist in the relationship between technology and culture, he has appeared on PBS (NOVA), the BBC, and Danish television, and has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Leeds, Warwick, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Minnesota, Oviedo, Notre Dame, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. In 2005 he received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal from the Society for the History of Technology, and in 2013 he was knighted by the Danish Queen. A PDF file containing a bibliography and index to his publications can be downloaded for free at https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/219592/Technology%27s%20Contexts%20-%20final%20copy.pdf?sequence=3
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