The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution
When:
Wednesday, Feb 26, 2025 7:00p -
9:00p
Wednesday, Feb 26, 2025 7:00p -
9:00p
Where:
MIT Museum
314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Building E-28
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
$5
Hosted by:
Categories:
History, Innovation
Event website:
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/write-science
Join MIT Professors David Mindell, Suzanne Berger, and 2024 Nobel Prize winner Simon Johnson to discuss Mindell's new book, The New Lunar Society, on how we can create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution.
Climate change, global disruption, and labor scarcity are forcing us to rethink the underlying principles of industrial society. In The New Lunar Society, David Mindell envisions this new industrialism from the fundamentals, drawing on the eighteenth century when first principles were formed at the founding of the Industrial Revolution. While outlining the new industrialism, he tells the story of the Lunar Society, a group of engineers, scientists, and industrialists who came together to apply the principles of the Enlightenment to industrial processes. Those principles were collaboration, the marriage of practice and scientific knowledge, and the belief that the world could progress through making things.
Copies of The New Lunar Society will be available for purchase onsite from the MIT Press Bookstore.
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