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Tom Standage
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Tom Standage is a British journalist and author who serves as Deputy Editor of The Economist and has written several non-fiction books on technology and history.
Biography
Tom Standage is a British journalist and editorial executive who serves as Deputy Editor of The Economist under editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes. As head of the newspaper's digital strategy, he is editor-in-chief of The Economist's website, its applications and digital platform.
Standage graduated from Oxford University with a degree in engineering and computing. He joined The Economist in 1998 as a science correspondent and was successively appointed technology editor, business editor and digital editor. Earlier he wrote on science and technology for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, where he was deputy editor of the technology supplement Connected. He 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).
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Books by Tom Standage
An edible history of humanity
An Edible History of Humanity (2009) presents a complex history of the world in a simple, easy-to-read form, using analogies to make history easy to learn and follow for everyday people.