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Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives

Join the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation for a week-long webinar series drawing renewed attention to historic and contemporary inventors of color and Black technology consumers, while discussing strategies for building a more equitable innovation ecosystem.

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Inventing the Surveillance Society: Panel 2 and Roundtable Discussion

We are being watched. How did our surveillance society emerge, and what is the effect of ubiquitous surveillance on our everyday lives?

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Inventing the Surveillance Society: Fact and Fiction

We are being watched. How did our surveillance society emerge, and what is the effect of ubiquitous surveillance on our everyday lives?

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Inventing the Surveillance Society: Keynote and Panel 1

We are being watched. How did our surveillance society emerge, and what is the effect of ubiquitous surveillance on our everyday lives?

Lemelson Center Research

Lemelson Center Research and Program Focus, 2016-2020

In coming years, we will continue research on the role of place in innovation and drivers for people to become inventors and innovators. We also will initiate research, exhibitions, educational activities, and public engagement work in the new areas of innovation in sports and the role of risk and failure in invention and innovation.

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New Perspectives Symposium: Inventing the Surveillance Society

In October 2013, the Lemelson Center hosted this symposium that brought together scholars, inventors, policymakers, members of the media, and the public to explore the role of invention in a world where our actions (and transactions) are constantly monitored.

Invention Stories

Can We Control Surveillance Tech?

With mounting concerns for national security, surveillance technologies are not going away. But is it too late to bring them back under at least some semblance of democratic control?

Invention Stories

Keep It Secret. Keep US Safe.

Espionage and sabotage were serious concerns for U.S. citizens during WWII. Poster campaigns promoted maintaining secrecy.

Beyond Words

Podcast: Adam Harvey Counters Surveillance with Fashion

Artist-designer-inventor Adam Harvey explores the aesthetics of privacy.

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Inventing the Surveillance Society

Our annual symposium will discuss our surveillance society—but in a different way than what you typically see on the 24-hour news cycle.

Beyond Words

Podcast: Political Machines - Innovations that Let the People be Heard, Part 2 (of 2)

Listen to highlights from "Political Machines: Innovations in Campaigns and Elections," the Lemelson Center’s 2012 New Perspectives on Invention and Innovation symposium, and an interview with POPVOX.com co-founder Rachna Choudhry.

Beyond Words

Podcast: Political Machines - Innovations in Campaigns and Elections, Part 1 (of 2)

Explore the intersection of technology and political advertising, campaigning, polling, and voting in this overview of the Lemelson Center’s 2012 New Perspectives on Invention and Innovation symposium.

Invention Stories

The Color of Invention

Colors fill the world, yet they aren’t in themselves tangible things that can be held in one’s hand. Colors are imbued with meanings, though they possess no inherent significance. How do we study this ethereal thing we call color?

Beyond Words

Podcast: Warren Belasco Studies Food for Tomorrow

Professor Warren Belasco traces a history of the “future” of food.