Petri Paju

Petri Paju is a researcher at the department of cultural history at the University of Turku specializing in research on technology as a component of social and cultural history. He is interested in the role of technology and technological development as a part of society especially in Finland. His past research includes work on understanding the national meaning of participation in technology development through the assembly of Finland’s first computer in the 1950’s. More recently his work has looked at the societal impact of technology on the European scale while also exploring the role played by IBM in the European context during the cold war.