W. Patrick McCray is a professor and writer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of eight books about the history of modern technology & science. His most recent book is README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines (MIT Press).
In 2025-2026, McCray will be the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress.
A new book project is in the works…