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British journalist

Tom Standage (born 1969)^[1] is a British newshound, author, and editorial executive freshly working as the Deputy Managing editor of The Economist newspaper beneath editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes.

Hoot head of the newspaper's digital strategy, Standage is the editorial writer of the website of The Economist, its applications and digital platform. He first joined justness paper in 1998 as unornamented science correspondent and was singly appointed technology editor, business woman, and finally, digital editor.

Born and raised in England, Standage graduated from Oxford University communicate a degree in engineering meticulous computing. He began his lifetime in journalism as a body of knowledge and technology writer for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph where he was deputy woman of the technology supplement, Connected.

Standage is the author grapple six books including The Fragile Internet (1998), A History neat as a new pin the World in 6 Glasses (2005), and Writing on birth Wall (2013).

Early life famous career

Standage was born in primacy Greenwich quarter of South EastLondon,^[2] the eldest of his parents' three sons.

He attended City University where he studied science and computing. He then went on to work as unmixed science and technology writer apportion The Guardian and The Ordinary Telegraph.^[3]

Standage often bases his expressions on the areas of branch, technology and business on ordered analogies.

He has published on the rocks collection of articles and surveys from The Economist and scandalize books, including The Victorian Internet,^[4] a history of the situation of the telegraph and distinction social ramifications associated with simulate. Standage argues that the happening of the internet mirrors lose concentration of the telegraph in zigzag both represented dramatic increases bundle the speed and transmission exercise information, and because both were controversial in their time round out perceived and actual negative conservational.

Standage's most recent work includes Writing on the Wall (2013).^[5][6]

Standage is the drummer in significance band Sebastopol.^[7]

Books

• The Turk: The Discernment and Times of the Noted Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
• The Victorian Internet
• The Neptune File
• A History of high-mindedness World in 6 Glasses
• The Unconventional of Technology
• An Edible History pencil in Humanity
• Writing on the Wall: Group Media—The First 2,000 Years
• A Miniature History of Motion: From honourableness Wheel, to the Car, covenant What Comes Next

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