Howard P. Segal

Howard Paul Segal (July 15, 1948 – November 9, 2020) was an American historian who was a professor of history at the University of Maine. Specializing in the history of American technology and American utopianism, he wrote well over 200 articles and authored or edited eight books including Technology and Utopia, Technology, Pessimism, and Post-Modernism ; Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America; Utopias: A Brief History; Technology in America ; Technological Utopianism in American Culture; and Recasting the Machine Age.