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David A. Mindell

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Electrical engineer, historian, and entrepreneur. Co-Founder and partner at Unless, an investment firm focused on supporting companies at the forefront of industrial transformation.

A Professor of Aerospace Engineering at MIT, David is an expert on robotic navigation and human interactions with autonomous systems in air, sea, and space. As Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, David is a leading authority on generations of inventors, engineers, entrepreneurs, and workers within the great arcs of technological change. He has led or participated in more than 25 oceanographic expeditions, written seven books, and is an inventor on 34 patents in RF navigation, autonomous systems, and AI-assisted piloting. He also spe ...more

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	Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight 4.29 avg rating — 662 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy 3.83 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) 4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines by David H. Autor, David A. Mindell (Goodreads Author), Elisabeth Reynolds 3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2025 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines by David A. Mindell (Goodreads Author), Elisabeth Reynolds, Robert Solow (Foreword) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Technology) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns

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The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet (Leonardo Books)

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“A physical task becomes a visual display, and then a cognitive task. What once required strength now requires attention, patience, quick reactions.”
― David A. Mindell, Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

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“In the real-time pressure of a lunar landing, an extensive social network of engineers focused on two men and a computer in an air-conditioned bubble, sitting on top of a rocket engine with a telescope and a control stick.”
― David A. Mindell, Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight

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“lost a hydrogen bomb in the ocean near Spain,”
― David A. Mindell, Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

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