I am a historian studying ideas about technology and machines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This website outlines my work and my interests.
In 2011-12 I am a postdoctoral fellow of the Profutur project, hosted jointly by the Centre de Recherches Historiques (EHESS-CNRS, Paris) and the Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (ENS-CNRS, Paris). The aim of the project is to explore the ‘anticipatory’ or future-oriented techniques of 18th- and 19th-century Europe. My work, in particular, will be on Charles Babbage and risk.
I am a member of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group and affiliated to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
For more information, please remove the obfuscation and contact me at daniel-OBFUSCATED-@danielwilson.info