Resume

• 2013

  Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

  School for the Future of Innovation in Society

  Arizona State University

  Texas A&M University

  King's College London

  Bryan/College Station

  Texas Area

  Professor

  Texas A&M University

  Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

• 1974

  Princeton University

  Princeton University

  Visiting Professor

  Tempe

  Arizona

  School for the Future of Innovation in Society

  Arizona State University

  King's College London

  London

  United Kingdom

  I am spending the fall working on my “Creative Construction: The Importance of Froth and Fraud in Emerging Technologies.”

  Visiting Research Fellow

  I spent a year on a Fulbright (thank you very much

  American and Japanese taxpayers) teaching at Tokyo Institute of Technology and researching the decline of the fax machine in Japan.

  Tokyo Institute of Technology

  Princeton University

  B.A.

  History & Philosophy of Science

  Daily Princetonian

  Princeton University

• The high cost of reaching orbit (approximately $20

  000 a kilogram) hinders the exploration and exploitation of space. A new generation of ground-based launch systems should reduce that cost sufficiently to spark new

  affordable

  and profitable waves of space-based activity. Creating the new technology will require major government support

  continuing the role of the American government in developing and promoting better transportation.

  “Affordable Access to Space”

  Jonathan

  Coopersmith

  Tokyo Institute of Technology