Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody writes about media and technology at Wired.com, Snarkmarket, HiLobrow, The Idler, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other outlets. Together with the community at Snarkmarket, he helped write and edit a 2009 book titled New Liberal Arts. More

Tim Carmody writes about media, technology, art, and culture at Wired.com, Snarkmarket, HiLobrow, The Idler, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Journal of Modern Literature, and other outlets. Together with the community at Snarkmarket, he helped write and edit a 2009 book titled New Liberal Arts. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Michigan State University and received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory in 2009, where he was also a postdoctoral fellow teaching the history of writing and the relationships between mathematics, science, and media. He is the founder of a community website called Bookfuturism on the history and future of reading and writing.

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Space Telemetry: How Extraterrestrials Phone Home

Space Telemetry: How Extraterrestrials Phone Home

Technology

The idea that measurements could be taken and commands given using the same radio waves wasn't available midcentury More »

10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books

10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books

Technology

Literacy may be changing in our time, but reading has already undergone many transformations. More »

A Bookfuturist Manifesto

Technology

A brilliant essay outlines a new path for thinking about the future of reading and writing More »

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