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Alex Wright

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born

August 01, 1966 in Boston MA, The United States

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male

website

http://www.alexwright.org/

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Nonfiction, History, Computers & Internet

member since

December 2007

About this author

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Alex Wright is a writer and information architect who lives and works in New York City. His first book, Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages, was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a penetrating and highly entertaining meditation on our information age and its historical roots."

Alex's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, The Christian Science Monitor, The Believer, Harvard Magazine, Utne Reader, Yankee, Think, Boxes and Arrows, New Architect, WebTechniques, Boston Business, Design Times and Library Journal, among others.

Alex holds a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. He has also completed graduate coursework in journali...more

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Books by Alex Wright

Average rating: 3.66 · 230 ratings · 51 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages 3.60 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Why Bother With Theology? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Who Governs Scotland? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Imagineering Field Guide to Disneyland by Imagineers, Alex Wright (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Open All the Way: Confessions From My Open Marriage by Sadie Smythe, Lisa Madeleine Boone (Editor), Brad Walton (Illustrator) 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Birnbaum's Walt Disney World for Kids 2008 by Jill Safro, Birnbaum travel guides,, Alex Wright (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Britain and European Integration Since 1945: On the Sidelines by David Gowland, Arthur Turner, Alex Wright (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Turn Great Ideas Into Reality: Develop and Present a Winning Business Case by Daniel C. Yeomans, Peter Rogers, Alex Wright (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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Alex gave to: Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 by Markus Krajewski	My rating:
Jan 11, 2012 07:33am
Alex liked Melissa's review of Glut: " This book is essential reading for librarians, information architects, and other meta-knowledge geeks, but most others could probably skip it. I liked best the chapters on classification systems and alternative networked-computing models, but any... " Read more of this review »
Jan 27, 2010 07:13am · see review
Alex liked Rachel's review of Glut: " Intense, but v. readable book about the history of information systems. I was hooked at the intro. The author gives the standard scholarly "lots of people helped me--but all the errors are my own" admission, and then: "And perhaps I can take solac... " Read more of this review »
Jan 27, 2010 07:13am · see review
Alex liked Gina Scioscia's review of Glut: " A wonderful tour of the ways humans have sought to organize and impart knowledge and information. Wright tackles the disciplines of psychology, cultural anthropology and computer science, even illuminating by examples from evolutionary biology, ho... " Read more of this review »
Jan 27, 2010 07:13am · see review
Alex is currently reading: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan	My rating:
Sep 04, 2008 06:00am
Alex gave to: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan	My rating:
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Alex gave to: Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris	My rating:
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Alex gave to: Arthur and George by Julian Barnes	My rating:
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Alex gave to: The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley	My rating:
Dec 05, 2007 01:26pm
Alex gave to: Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form by Scott McCloud	My rating:
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