Biography

David has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. with a dissertation on Heidegger's ontology of things (das Ding). He taught philosophy until 1986 when he entered tech as a writer, working in tech companies and being an early voice talking about the profound changes the Internet was about to bring. Since then he has written five books on the Net and AI's effect on our ideas.

He has a 20+ year affiliation with Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, has been a journalism fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department, and was a founding co-director of Harvard's Library Innovation Lab. He also edits an open access book series for MIT Press.