How the Victorians invented the future for us. From Tesla to Wells, the
Victorians taught us to think that the future could be different from
the past. Born and brought up in Aberystwyth, Iwan graduated in Natural
Science from Cambridge University in 1985 before going on to complete an
MPhil (1986) and PhD (1989) in History and Philosophy of Science there.
He was a Research Fellow at Cambridge until 1994, after which he spent a
year at the University of California San Diego before taking up a
lectureship at Queen's University Belfast. He joined the Department of
History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth in 2005. He was the editor of
History of Science until the end of 2014 and remains on the editorial
board. He is also on the Editorial Board of the University of Wales
Press Scientists of Wales series. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical
Society and of the Learned Society of Wales. This talk was given at a
TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized
by a local community.
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