Editing Steve Mann (inventor) (section)

== Media coverage ==
Mann has been referred to as the "father of wearable computing",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/05/google-project-glass-digital-goggles|title=Google Project Glass: will we really wear digital goggles?|first=Jack|last=Schofield|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=2012-04-05|access-date=2012-07-23|quote=Steve Mann, a Canadian known as the father of wearable computing, has been developing systems since the 1980s with obvious industrial, medical and military applications.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4039816/ISSCC--Dick-Tracy-watch-watchers-disagree|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122082834/http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4039816/ISSCC--Dick-Tracy-watch-watchers-disagree|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-22|title=ISSCC: 'Dick Tracy' watch watchers disagree|first=Peter|last=Clarke|work=[[EE Times]]|date=2000-02-08|access-date=2012-07-23|quote=Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto, was hailed as the father of the wearable computer and the ISSCC's first virtual panelist, by moderator...}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | first = Jack | last = Schofield | author-link = Jack Schofield (journalist) | title = From man to borg – Is this the future? | date = 2001-08-01 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/aug/02/onlinesupplement.gadgets | work = [[The Guardian]] | access-date = 2012-07-21}}</ref> having created the first general-purpose wearable computer, in contrast to previous wearable devices that perform one specific function such as time-keeping (e.g. wristwatch); calculations (e.g. wearable abacus); or [[Edward O. Thorp]] and [[Claude Shannon]]'s [[wearable computer]]s, which were timing devices concealed in shoes or cigarette packs and designed for gaining an advantage at [[roulette]].<ref name="Wearable
computer">{{cite web |url=http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/courses/mobwear/resources/thorp-iswc98.pdf |title=The Invention of the First Wearable Computer Online paper by Edward O. Thorp of Edward O. Thorp & Associates |access-date=2010-04-26 |archive-date=2008-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528182202/http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/courses/mobwear/resources/thorp-iswc98.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=TorStar2013-02-13 />

Mann has also been described as "the world's first [[cyborg]]" in Canadian popular press such as ''[[Now (newspaper)|NOW]]'', ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', ''[[National Post]]'', and ''[[Toronto Life]]'', but has himself rejected the term "cyborg" as being too vague.<ref>{{cite book|title=Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer|first=Steve|last=Mann|author2=Hal Niedzviecki |publisher=Randomhouse Doubleday|year=2001|isbn=978-0-385-65826-3}}</ref>

In 2023, Steve Mann ran for Mayor of Toronto.<ref>{{cite web|title=Steve Mann for Mayor|url=https://votestevemann.com}}</ref> As part of his campaign he advocated for recreational swimming in Lake Ontario, and supported a petition to save the beach at Ontario Place.<ref>{{cite web|title=SwimOP|url=https://www.swimop.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Save the Beach|url=https://savethebeach.ca}}</ref>