John Naughton

John Naughton has been an academic and a journalist all his working life. He teaches in the Open University's Systems Group and leads the University's 'Going Digital' project. Since 1987 he has written a weekly column for the Observer, which has won him several major awards, including three nominations as Critic of the Year. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and the Director of the College's Press Fellowship Programme. A Brief History of the Future was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize, the premier award for science writing. Visit his blog at www.memex.naughtons.org.