Alex Wright

Author of Empire of Ink (forthcoming from Basic Books, 2026) and two previous books on the history of the information age; bylines in The NYTimes, The Atlantic, Salon.com, The Believer, Wilson Quarterly, Interactions, ACM, and elsewhere.

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