Paul Ford is also one of the most prominent and in-demand literary voices covering technology, as a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, BusinessWeek, MIT Technology Review, and NPR. Aside from his unimpeachable technical credentials-Ford was one of the first bloggers, starting his website Ftrain.com in 1997, an era before the terrible word "blog" was ever coined-he is also a novelist and a one-time editor at Harper's. Today, he works as a high-profile web consultant a well-respected technologist/programmer who is oft-invited to speak and present at...