Independent historian of technology whose subjects have included the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak (Baidarka, 1986), the evolution of artificial intelligence (Darwin Among the Machines, 1997), a path not taken into space (Project Orion, 2002), and the transition from numbers that mean things to numbers that do things in the aftermath of World War II (Turing’s Cathedral, 2012).
Translations into Italian, Japanese, German, Spanish, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese; Contributions to Scientific American, Nature, Forbes, Discover, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Make; Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Victoria, 2012; dual citizen of Canada and the United States; member, technical staff, Blue Origin, LLC, since 2002.