David Noble

Name: David Franklin Noble

Born: July 22, 1945, in New York City, USA

Death: December 27, 2010 (Age: 65)

Computer-related contributions

• Historian, author, and former professor of Social and Political Thought at York University.
• Critical historian of technology, science, and education.
• Known for his work on the social history of automation.

Significant publications

• Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth (Provocations) (2005).
• The Religion of Technology; The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention (1997).
• Progress Without People; New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance (1995).
• Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (1984).
• America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (1977).