Les Posen is by profession a Clinical Psychologist known to colleagues and patients as an early adopter of technology for personal and professional use. He has been president of a computer club in the past and is currently Vic-President of TOCA.
He specialises in helping patients confront anxieties especially travel such as flying, driving, elevators, bridges and tunnels, and employs cutting edge technologies to do so, such as Virtual Reality and wearables.
While he is often the first in his cohort to sample new technologies he is also very aware of a concept he calls technological determinism - just. Because a technology exists we should use it. Instead, he prefers to test how new technologies can augment our day to day activities. He is very much in line with the idea that promotors of new technologies too often over promise and under-deliver.