W. Patrick McCray is a professor and writer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author/editor of eight books about the histories of modern technology & science. The MIT Press published his
last book - Making Art Work - in 2020. MITP will also publish his next book, called README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines, in late 2025.
A new project is in the works…