Keynote: The Deep History of the Information Age

Alex Wright is the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a “penetrating and highly entertaining meditation on our information age and its historical roots.” He currently works for The New York Times, and previously has led information design initiatives for Harvard University, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and the Internet Archive, among others.

His writing has also appeared in Salon.com, The Christian Science Monitor, Harvard Magazine and other national and regional publications. He maintains a personal Web site at http://www.alexwright.com