Tor Nørretranders is a Danish

Denmark

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 author

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 of popular science

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. He was born in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, Denmark. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on science and its role in society, often with Nørretranders' own advice about how society should integrate new findings in science. He introduced the notion of exformation

Exformation

Exformation is a term coined by Danish science writer Tor Nørretranders in his book The User Illusion published in English 1998. It is meant to mean explicitly discarded information...

 in his book The User Illusion

The User Illusion

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.

Biography

Tor Nørretranders' mother is Yvonne Levy (1920-) and his father is Bjarne Nørretranders (1922-1986). Tor Nørretranders graduated at "Det frie gymnasium" in 1973 and reached a cand.techn.soc-degree from Roskilde University

Roskilde University

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 (Roskilde

Roskilde

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) in 1982, specialized in environment planning and its scientific theoretic basis. He lives north of Copenhagen with his wife Rikke Ulk and three children.

Other academic accomplishments

• The Technical University of Denmark
  Technical University of Denmark
  The Technical University of Denmark , often simply referred to as DTU, is a university just north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's first polytechnic, and is today ranked among Europe's leading engineering institutions, and the...
  
   from 1982-1983
• The Danish Royal Academy of Art 1990-1991
• Adjunct Professor of the philosophy of science at Copenhagen Business School since 2003.

Journalism background

• Information
  Dagbladet Information
  Information , full name: Dagbladet Information , is a Danish newspaper published Monday through Saturday.Originally established and edited by Børge Outze and published during the World War II by the Danish resistance movement. Information was illegal during the war as it was not regulated by the...
  
  (Danish Paper) 1975-1982
• Weekendavisen (Danish Paper) 1983-1985
• Børsens Nyhedsmagasin (Danish Paper) 1985-1986
• Danmarks Radio TV-K (Danish TV-station) 1986-1988
• Chaos 1988-1990 (company producing science journalism and television)
• Has received 'Dansk Forfatterforenings Faglitterære Pris 1985' (The Danish Society of Authors' Non-Fiction Prize 1985) and 'Publicistprisen 1988' (The Publicist Prize 1988)