Dr. Theodora Dryer is a writer, historian, and critical policy analyst. Her work centers on histories of data and technology in climate change and the political functions of algorithms and predictive analytics in water and natural resource management. She is Director of the Water Justice and Technology Studio www.waterjustice-tech.org, Founder of the Critical Carbon Computing Collective, and teaches on technology and environmental justice at New York University. Dr. Dryer holds awards from the Charles Babbage Institute in Information Technology and the IEEE in History of Electrical and Computing Technology. Her work has appeared in Osiris, Oxford University Press, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Branch Magazine, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Logic Magazine, and elsewhere.

Recent Writing

No AI for the Colorado River: https://waterjustice-tech.org/no-ai-colorado-river/

Your Artificial Future is Repulsive: On Climate Change, Data Tech, and Artifice

Seeds of Control: Sugar Beets, Control Algorithms, and New Deal Data Politics ISBN: 9780197502426

Computing Net Zero (with Cindy Lin and Johannah Rodgers): https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-5/computing-net-zero/

Settler Computing: Water Algorithms and the Equitable Apportionment Doctrine on the Colorado River, 1950-1990: 10.1086/725187