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A Note on the Author

TOM STANDAGE is business editor at the
Economist
and the author of
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (a New York Times
bestseller), The Turk,
The Neptune File
, and
The Victorian Internet,
described by the
Wall Street Journal
as a “dot-com cult classic.”
The Victorian Internet
was made into a documentary film,
How the Victorians Wired the World.
He has written about science and technology for numerous magazines and newspapers, including
Wired,
the
Guardian
, the
Daily Telegraph
, and the
New York Times
. Standage holds a degree in engineering and computer science from Oxford University, and he is the least musical member of
a musical family. He lives in London, En-gland, with his wife, daughter, and son.