is the award-winning and national-bestselling author of six books, including The Genius in All of Us: New Insights Into Genetics, Talent and IQ, Data Smog and The End of Patience. He is a popular lecturer, a short-film director, and a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. He has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Gourmet, Harper's, Spy, The New Yorker, NPR, and PBS. 



   His most recent book, The Genius in All of Us: New Insights Into Genetics, Talent, and IQ was welcomed as "a deeply interesting and important book" by the New York Times, "profound," by the London Evening Standard, and "a thinking man's Outliers" by New York magazine.

   He also published two books and dozens of essays on the emotional, social and political ramifications of the information revolution. Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut was hailed by The New York Times as "an indispensable guide to the big picture of technology's cultural impact." He co-founded "Technorealism," a movement encouraging balanced consideration of technology's effects on humanity. Dan Rather commented, "Shenk may understand the Information Age better than anyone else: he sees benefits and perils that everybody else seems too rushed to notice, and I predict that the notes of caution he sounds in The End of Patience will be remembered by future generations for their prophetic accuracy."