Peter Wiesner

Born in England in 1945, Peter Wiesner lived in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1954. He studied History at Berkeley and earned graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University; and then held positions in post-secondary education, including Rutgers University and the IEEE, an international professional association for electrical engineers. He has published in the education field and produced television documentaries on social as well as environmental issues, including literacy, architecture, nuclear disarmament, and numerous focused on the social and environmental implications of technology, such as e-waste, green engineering, ethics, and renewable energy. Retired in 2011, he wrote “Xtremus” (Montag Press, 2015), a satire about the demise of high technology resulting from a virus attack on the brain-implanted technocrats. He is currently completing the memoir “Bipolar Refugee, the Saga of a Holocaust Survivor”. He and his wife currently live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.