Wade Rowland
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Wade Rowland is a Canadian science, technology, and travel writer.
[edit] Biography
Rowland was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1944. He was married in 1978 to Christine Collie, with whom he has two children, Hilary and Simon.
Rowland has worked as a journalist for the Winnipeg Free Press, the Toronto Telegram, and Canadian television networks CBC and CTV. He holds a Ph.D. from Toronto's York University. He has lectured at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and is a former Maclean Hunter Chair of Ethics in Communication at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is currently a professor of communications at York University's Atkinson School of Arts and Letters. He has resided in Port Hope, Ontario since 1982.
[edit] Books
- Spirit of the Web: The Age of Information from Telegraph to Internet – 1997
- Ockham's Razor: A Search for Wonder In An Age of Doubt – 1999
- Galileo's Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church – 2003
- Greed Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen – 2005
