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Professor @ UCSB => science + tech + environment Kluge Chair in Technology & Society @ LoC, 2025-26 New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/ Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗‍♂️⛷️🏄🏼‍♂️🏔 in Cali-rado. More = https://www.patrickmccray.com

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Jun 17

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at:

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 52m

My e-copy just showed up; looking forward to reading this. Congrats!

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1h

Susan Collins is concerned...

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Mason L. Wong 王樂知 @masonlwong.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on Palantir, the chip industry, US-China competition, and what tech firms mean when they talk about "defending Western civilization."

Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and the LARB team for the edits!

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The Microchip Titans | Los Angeles Review of Books

Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 15h

Robert Gordon might like a word

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 15h

the image? fix it?

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 16h

I have no idea.
Maybe another Nobelist could explain it...

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 16h

Mokyr "showed that for innovations to succeed and become a self-generating process, people needed a scientific explanation for why the breakthroughs worked...."

That's not necessarily true but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 19h

Sad news. Bert was a character at AIP.

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 19h

Joel Mokyr winning a Nobel i.e. economists doing bad history

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. One wonders how the technocratic mindset leads down this path.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

Faculty meeting tomorrow afternoon

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

My hotel room in Brussels is quite something.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2d

Nice dawn patrol pic.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2d

Can't make this session; would be curious to know if anyone considers how I-word has been so stretched and spread so thin as to be intellectually non-nutritious

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

Tie all this in to:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tri...

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

Would be interesting to combine ES's two-dimen schematic with Kelsey's techno-nationalism v. political economy critique...would yield a 3D space in which to position critiques

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

My review of Matt’s book appears on Monday in the LA review of books.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 4d

Nobels, 2025

University of California faculty and alumni = 5
Donald Trump = 0

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

ON MY WAY...

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

I must be getting old because I wish I heard more historiography to help frame talks at #SHOT2025

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

Rowan is to higher ed as Dr. Nick is to medicine.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

Brevity = soul of wit.

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

China has been installing enough solar panels every three weeks to match the power generation capacity of the Three Gorges Dam.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

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