John Markoff wrote about technology and science for the New York Times beginning in March 1988 as the paper’s national computer writer. He retired from the paper in 2017 to write a biography of Stewart Brand. In 2013 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting as part of a New York Times project on labor and automation. He has written six books including What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture shaped the Personal Computer Industry, published by Viking Books and Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots, published by HarperCollins Ecco.
