Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, James Davis, Mauricio Gonzalez De La Fuente, Ted McCarthy, Anita Prakash, Francisco Proenza, Roni Rosenfeld, and Eduardo Villanueva. Several professional editors – Simon Waxman, Jenna Free, Connie Chapman, and Christina Henry de Tessan – provided additional excellent suggestions.
I was blessed with many friends and acquaintances who each read one or more chapters: Shabnam Aggarwal, Varun Aggarwal, Jyotsna Agrawal, Michael Aldridge, Marika Arcese, Varun Arora, Sri Arumugam, Patrick Awuah, Sateesh Babu, Savita Bailur, Anton Bakalov, Rashmir Balasubramaniam, Eugene Bardach, Joanna Bargeron, Jason Belcher, Garima Bhatia, Lillian Bridges, Paolo Brunello, Fujin Butsudo, Cindy Chen, Gerry Chu, Melody Clark, Joshua Cohen, Carola Conces, Mo Corston-Oliver, Paul Currion, Melissa Densmore, Ron Dirkse, Jonathan Donner, Krittika D’Silva, George Durham, Hans-Juergen Engelbrecht, Lauri Ericson, Caroline Figueres, Sybille Fleischman, Rikin Gandhi, Ankur Garg, Maria Gargiulo, Anirban Ghose, Seshagiri GS, Leba Haber, Christopher Hoadley, Vigneswaran Ilavarasan, Ryan Jacobs, Susan Jeffords, Jofish Kaye, Itamar Kimchi, Anirudh Krishna,Neha Kumar, Richa Kumar, Kimmo Kuusilinna, Susie J. Lee, Natalie Linnell, Andie Long, Tracey Lovejoy, Adnan Mahmud, Meghana Marathe, Derek Mathis, Indrani Medhi, Ghulam Murtaza, Satyajit Nath, Muchiri Nyaggah, Flavio Oliveira, Michael Paik, Diana Pallais, Saurabh Panjwani, Dan Perkel, Gretchen Philips, Sean Policarpio, Sammia Poveda, Abhishek Prateek, Barath Raghavan, Seema Ramchandani, Jon Rosenberg, Atsushi Sakahara, Sambit Satpathy, Jonathan Scanlon, Kevin Schofield, Frank Schott, Scott Stossel, Thomas Stossel, Jeff Swindle, Heather Thorne, Dan Toyama, Haruki Toyama, Toni Tsvetanova, Dipti Vaghela, Rama Vedashree, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Jonathan Wai, Lowell Weiss, Renee Wittemeyer, Treena Wu, and Mel Young.
Additionally, my writing benefited from conversations and other forms of support from many, many people: Debbie Apsley, Özlem Ayduk, Marika Arcese, Siva Athreya, Garima Bhatia, Chris Blattman, Peter Blomquist, Maurizio Bricola, Jenna Burrell, Suvojit Chattopadhyay, Deepti Chittamuru, Magdalena Claro, Josh Cohen, Kristina Cordero, David Daballen, Kristen Dailey, John Danner, Ankhi Das, Alain de Janvry, Thad Dunning, Paolo Ficarelli, Greg Fischer, Bablu Ganguly, Maria Gargiulo, Achintya Ghosh, Rachel Glennerster, Richa Govil, Jürgen Hagmann, Naomi Handa-Williams, Saskia Harmsen, Gaël Hernández, Melissa Ho, Shanti Jayanthasri, Rob Jensen, Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Joseph Joy, Pritam Kabe, Ken Keniston, Neelima Khetan, Jessica Kiessel, Michael Kremer, Ramchandar Krishnamurthy, Antony Lekoitip, Miep Lenoir, Julia Lowe, Jeff MacKie-Mason, Drew McDermott, Patricia Mecheal, Pavithra Mehta, Ted Miguel, Eduardo Monge, Rohan Murty, Miguel Nussbaum, Chip Owen, Tapan Parikh, Paul Polak, Madhavi Raj, Ranjeet Ranade, Gautam Rao, Eric Ringger, Hans Rosling, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Maximiliano Santa Cruz Scantlebury, Jonathan Scanlon, Denise Senmartin, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Priyanka Singh, Pratima Stanton, Rick Szeliski, Steve Toben, Mike Trucano, Avinash Upadhyay, Dipti Vaghela, Suzanne van der Velden, Srikant Vasan, Wayan Vota, Terry Winograd, Christian Witt, Renee Wittemeyer, and Naa Lamle Wulff.
As much as I criticize technology hype, I’m not against technology per se. Let me own up to my big debts to digital technology: I wrote this book in Microsoft Word on an Asus laptop running Windows. My research was greatly facilitated by Google and Wikipedia. I found several out-of-print books on Amazon. Facebook allowed me to conduct informal surveys. And Twitter and other social media will play a part in book tours.
The title Geek Heresy comes from a May 6, 2011, article written about me by Tom Paulson, founder of the Humanosphere nonprofit news organization (see www.humanosphere.org ). Tom has since become a close friend, and I’ve joined his nonprofit’s board to support its uniquely fearless reporting
I was blessed with many friends and acquaintances who each read one or more chapters: Shabnam Aggarwal, Varun Aggarwal, Jyotsna Agrawal, Michael Aldridge, Marika Arcese, Varun Arora, Sri Arumugam, Patrick Awuah, Sateesh Babu, Savita Bailur, Anton Bakalov, Rashmir Balasubramaniam, Eugene Bardach, Joanna Bargeron, Jason Belcher, Garima Bhatia, Lillian Bridges, Paolo Brunello, Fujin Butsudo, Cindy Chen, Gerry Chu, Melody Clark, Joshua Cohen, Carola Conces, Mo Corston-Oliver, Paul Currion, Melissa Densmore, Ron Dirkse, Jonathan Donner, Krittika D’Silva, George Durham, Hans-Juergen Engelbrecht, Lauri Ericson, Caroline Figueres, Sybille Fleischman, Rikin Gandhi, Ankur Garg, Maria Gargiulo, Anirban Ghose, Seshagiri GS, Leba Haber, Christopher Hoadley, Vigneswaran Ilavarasan, Ryan Jacobs, Susan Jeffords, Jofish Kaye, Itamar Kimchi, Anirudh Krishna,Neha Kumar, Richa Kumar, Kimmo Kuusilinna, Susie J. Lee, Natalie Linnell, Andie Long, Tracey Lovejoy, Adnan Mahmud, Meghana Marathe, Derek Mathis, Indrani Medhi, Ghulam Murtaza, Satyajit Nath, Muchiri Nyaggah, Flavio Oliveira, Michael Paik, Diana Pallais, Saurabh Panjwani, Dan Perkel, Gretchen Philips, Sean Policarpio, Sammia Poveda, Abhishek Prateek, Barath Raghavan, Seema Ramchandani, Jon Rosenberg, Atsushi Sakahara, Sambit Satpathy, Jonathan Scanlon, Kevin Schofield, Frank Schott, Scott Stossel, Thomas Stossel, Jeff Swindle, Heather Thorne, Dan Toyama, Haruki Toyama, Toni Tsvetanova, Dipti Vaghela, Rama Vedashree, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Jonathan Wai, Lowell Weiss, Renee Wittemeyer, Treena Wu, and Mel Young.
Additionally, my writing benefited from conversations and other forms of support from many, many people: Debbie Apsley, Özlem Ayduk, Marika Arcese, Siva Athreya, Garima Bhatia, Chris Blattman, Peter Blomquist, Maurizio Bricola, Jenna Burrell, Suvojit Chattopadhyay, Deepti Chittamuru, Magdalena Claro, Josh Cohen, Kristina Cordero, David Daballen, Kristen Dailey, John Danner, Ankhi Das, Alain de Janvry, Thad Dunning, Paolo Ficarelli, Greg Fischer, Bablu Ganguly, Maria Gargiulo, Achintya Ghosh, Rachel Glennerster, Richa Govil, Jürgen Hagmann, Naomi Handa-Williams, Saskia Harmsen, Gaël Hernández, Melissa Ho, Shanti Jayanthasri, Rob Jensen, Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Joseph Joy, Pritam Kabe, Ken Keniston, Neelima Khetan, Jessica Kiessel, Michael Kremer, Ramchandar Krishnamurthy, Antony Lekoitip, Miep Lenoir, Julia Lowe, Jeff MacKie-Mason, Drew McDermott, Patricia Mecheal, Pavithra Mehta, Ted Miguel, Eduardo Monge, Rohan Murty, Miguel Nussbaum, Chip Owen, Tapan Parikh, Paul Polak, Madhavi Raj, Ranjeet Ranade, Gautam Rao, Eric Ringger, Hans Rosling, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Maximiliano Santa Cruz Scantlebury, Jonathan Scanlon, Denise Senmartin, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Priyanka Singh, Pratima Stanton, Rick Szeliski, Steve Toben, Mike Trucano, Avinash Upadhyay, Dipti Vaghela, Suzanne van der Velden, Srikant Vasan, Wayan Vota, Terry Winograd, Christian Witt, Renee Wittemeyer, and Naa Lamle Wulff.
As much as I criticize technology hype, I’m not against technology per se. Let me own up to my big debts to digital technology: I wrote this book in Microsoft Word on an Asus laptop running Windows. My research was greatly facilitated by Google and Wikipedia. I found several out-of-print books on Amazon. Facebook allowed me to conduct informal surveys. And Twitter and other social media will play a part in book tours.
The title Geek Heresy comes from a May 6, 2011, article written about me by Tom Paulson, founder of the Humanosphere nonprofit news organization (see www.humanosphere.org ). Tom has since become a close friend, and I’ve joined his nonprofit’s board to support its uniquely fearless reporting
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