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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Annalee Newitz writes about science, culture, and the future. She is the tech-culture editor at Ars Technica, and the founding editor of io9. Previously, she was the editor in chief of popular tech site Gizmodo. She’s the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize.

She’s also been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Smithsonian magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She’s coeditor of the essay collection She’s Such A Geek, and author of Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture. Formerly, she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley. She was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. You can sign up for email updates here.

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