Jonathan Coopersmith is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University, where he teaches the history of technology and 20th century Europe.  His Faxed.  The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine appeared in 2015 from Johns Hopkins University Press and was a co-recipient of the 2016 Business History Conference Hagley Prize for best book in business history.  Coopersmith has written about failure in technology, pornography and communication technologies, how Al Gore really did help invent the Internet (and the larger issue of political support for new technologies), and the electrification of Russia.  Currently he is researching “Creative Construction:  The importance of froth, fraud, and fear  in emerging technologies.”