Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Pang has spent more than 20 years studying people, technology, and the worlds they make. A professional futurist with a PhD in the history of science, Pang is the author of four books, including Shorter and The Distraction Addiction, and his writings have appeared in Scientific American, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and South China Morning Post, and many academic publications.

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