I occasionally give talks and interviews, typically focused
on the history of media, technology, and design.
If you’d like to have me come speak to your group, contact me.
SElected Talks
Regenerative User Experience
New York University
AI & History Panel
KiKK Festival
The Web That Time Forgot
Palais de Cinquantenaire
Intro to Design Sprints
New York University
Design for Understanding
Science Gateways 2023
Regenerative User Experience
Interaction 23
The Secret History of Hypertext
Penn State Center for Humanities and Information
“The Secret History of Hypertext”
Google SPAN (Pittsburgh)
Exploring the early heritage of networked systems that predated the World Wide Web.
Humanizing Data
UXStrat
A discussion of how Etsy’s research and data analytics teams have worked on integrating UX methods and data analysis.
UX STRAT USA, Alex Wright, "Etsy: Bridging UX Research and Data Analytics to Drive Design" […]
Cataloging the World
Google Brussels
The Platonic Network
NPR
The Platonic Network
Maryland Institute for the Humanities
Humanizing Data
The Market Research Event
The Web That Wasn’t
Google Art Talk
Keynote
UX Brighton
Panel Discussion
World Science Festival
Keynote
Defrag
Meet Your Ancestors (keynote)
UX Australia
Keynote
Indiana State Library Association
Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
New York State Higher Education CIOs
Keynote
American Association for Computers in Education
Keynote
Topic Maps 2008
The Web That Wasn’t
SxSW
The Web That Wasn’t
Gartner Group
Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
The Long Now Foundation
“Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages”
The Long Now Foundation
A talk at the Long Now Foundation based on my first book, exploring the deep history of the information age.
The Web That Wasn’t
ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit
Beyond the Browser
CMP Web 2001 conference
For a full list of past talks and presentations, see my CV.