Good Fortune, Mirrors, and Kisses

摘要

I am very honored by receiving SHOT's Leonardo da Vinci Medal. It was also a bewildering experience to listen to Arne Kaijser, immediate past president of SHOT and chair of the da Vinci Committee, reading the citation: Is this about me? I shall try to answer this question by taking up the invitation by Bernard Carlson, SHOT's secretary, to use this da Vinci lecture to provide "a mix of major ideas as well as autobiographical reflections." So, I will look into the mirror; but as a dyed-in-the-wool social constructivist, I will especially describe what then appears as the context in which I have been working. How has the history of technology during the past three decades shaped me?