W. Patrick McCray is a professor and writer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of eight books about the history of modern technology & science. His most recent book is README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines (MIT Press, 2025).
In 2025-2026, McCray was the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress.
Two new book project are in the works, one with the University of Pittsburgh Press and another with Yale University Press…