{"id":57,"date":"2014-01-12T17:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T17:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2014-05-22T21:32:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:32:34","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/?page_id=57","title":{"rendered":"About Alex Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_122\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/agw_300.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/agw_300-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Wright\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-122\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/agw_300-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/agw_300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Chad Sparks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Alex Wright is a professor of interaction design at the School of Visual Arts and a contributor to The New York Times. His first book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexwright.org\/glut\/\">Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages<\/a>, was hailed by The Los Angeles Times as a &#8220;penetrating and highly insightful meditation on our information age and its historical roots.&#8221; His writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Salon.com, The Believer, Harvard Magazine, Wilson Quarterly, and The Christian Science Monitor, among others. He has also worked over the years as an interaction designer and researcher for Etsy, The New York Times, Adobe\/Macromedia, Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the Long Now Foundation, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons. He maintains a personal Web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexwright.org\/\">www.alexwright.org<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Follow on:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Cataloging-the-World-Paul-Otlet-and-the-Birth-of-the-Information-Age\/293366887489513\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/fb1.jpeg\" alt=\"fb\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alexgrantwright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tw2.jpeg\" alt=\"tw\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Wright is a professor of interaction design at the School of Visual Arts and a contributor to The New York Times. His first book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexwright.org\/glut\/\">Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages<\/a>, was hailed by The Los Angeles Times as a &#8220;penetrating and highly insightful meditation on our information age and its historical roots.&#8221; His writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Salon.com, The Believer, Harvard Magazine, Wilson Quarterly, and The Christian Science Monitor, among others. He has also worked over the years as an interaction designer and researcher for Etsy, The New York Times, Adobe\/Macromedia, Yahoo!, the Internet Archive,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/?page_id=57\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catalogingtheworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}