Curated category
American technology writers
- Eberhard ReesEberhard Rees arrived at the Army Research Center Peenemünde in the spring of 1939. He managed V-2 rocket fabrication and assembly during World War II.
- Vernor VingeVernor Steffen Vinge spent decades asking one question that made both scientists and storytellers uncomfortable: what happens when machines become smarter…
- Bill GatesBill Gates was born on the 28th of October, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, and by age 31 he had become the world's youngest-ever billionaire.
- Eric SchmidtEric Schmidt was born on the 27th of April, 1955, in Falls Church, Virginia, into a family shaped by academia and government service.
- Nick SzaboNick Szabo looked at the Internet in the early 1990s and saw a fundamental problem: strangers doing business with each other had no reliable way to enforce…
- Andrew NgAndrew Yan-Tak Ng was born in London on the 18th of April 1976, to a hematologist father and an arts administrator mother who had both immigrated from Hong…
- Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil was born on the 12th of February 1948 in Queens, New York City, to parents who had fled Austria just before World War II.
- David M. EwaltDavid M. Ewalt was born in 1976 and began his career writing for InformationWeek. He moved from that role to become deputy editor of Forbes magazine.
- Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun helped carry humanity to the Moon, yet more people died building his most famous weapon than were ever killed by it.
- Virgil GriffithVirgil Griffith was arrested by the FBI on the 28th of November 2019. The agency accused him of giving North Korea information that could 'help North Korea…
- Lewis MumfordLewis Mumford was born on the 19th of October 1895 in Flushing, Queens, and spent the next nine decades becoming one of the most wide-ranging thinkers…