Media and cultural theorist, author of twenty books on technology and society including Media Virus, Cyberia, Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Program or Be Programmed. Host of the Team Human podcast and upcoming Team Human manifesto. Best known for coining terms like Media Virus, Social Media, and Digital Natives, as well as making the PBS Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism. Fellow of the Institute for the Future, advisor to LongPath Foundation, Civic Hall, Digital Town, Meetup, and Minds.com.