Forthcoming book from Professor John Naughton

We talked to John Naughton, recently retired as the Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology , about his latest book.  The book is titled ‘From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What you really need to know about the Internet’ and publication is due early in January 2012.   In the following video, John talks about the [...]

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John Naughton Retires»

After almost 40 years at The Open University, John Naughton, Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology retired recently. About a hundred colleagues gathered to wish John well and to share their memories of him and his work here at the OU. Roger Spear, Robin Roy, Martin Weller and Chris High spoke of how much [...]