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Ken Alder is Professor of History and the Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. He is a historian of science and technology, whose work is centered on the vibrancy of the material world. He is the author of three books of history: Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 (Princeton, 1997; Chicago. 2010); The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (The Free Press, 2002, and translated into 13 languages); and The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession (The Free Press, 2007). He has two current project. The first is a longue durée global history of technology, which takes up the perspective of the material artifacts themselves. The second is a history of the future, starting with Mesopotamia accounting practices and ending in our AI-present. He is also the author of the a novel: The White Bus (Saint Martin's, 1987).