Alex Wright

Alex Wright

About the Substack

Writing about media, technology, and the systems that shape the way we make sense of the world.

About Alex Wright

Author of Empire of Ink (forthcoming from Basic Books, 2026) and two previous books on the history of the information age; bylines in The NYTimes, The Atlantic, Salon.com, The Believer, Wilson Quarterly, Interactions, ACM, and elsewhere.