An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage

He has published a collection of articles and surveys from The Economist and six books, including The Victorian Internet, a history of the development of the telegraph and the social ramifications associated with it. Standage often bases his writing on the areas of science, technology and business on historical analogies. He then went on to work as a science and technology writer for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.

He attended Oxford University where he studied engineering and computing. Standage was born in the Greenwich quarter of South East London, the eldest of his parents' three sons. Standage is the author of six books including The Victorian Internet (1998), A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2005), and Writing on the Wall (2013). He began his career in journalism as a science and technology writer for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph where he was deputy editor of the technology supplement, Connected. He first joined the paper in 1998 as a science correspondent and was successively appointed technology editor, business editor, and finally, digital editor.īorn and raised in England, Standage graduated from Oxford University with a degree in engineering and computing. As head of the newspaper's digital strategy, Standage is the editor-in-chief of the website of The Economist, its applications and digital platform. Tom Standage (born 1969) is a British journalist, author, and editorial executive currently working as the Deputy Editor of The Economist newspaper under editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes.

Standage in 2012, presenting at the Big Data and the Evolution of Smart Systems Conference in San Francisco, California.

An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage