Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University and Villanova University's 2015 Harron Family Chair in Communication. He is President of the New York Society for General Semantics, Trustee and former Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics, Past President of the New York State Communication Association, and a founder and Past President of the Media Ecology Association. Dr. Strate is the author of Echoes and Reflections, On the Binding Biases of Time, Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman's Brave New World Revisited, and Thunder at Darwin Station. He is a recipient of the MEA's Walter Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship.