William Powers

William Powers

Author, Journalist and Technologist, Socrates Program

William Powers is a writer and technologist. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age. The book took him into the technology world, including five years at MIT as a research scientist working on ways artificial intelligence can help build better societies. He lives in Massachusetts and is Visiting Scholar for Humanistic Technologies at the Max Planck Center for Humans and Machines in Berlin.