Hackers and the dilemmas they pose fascinate me. Are they high-tech bandits or Robin Hoods? Do they threaten privacy or challenge authority and the notion of governmental control? And will the current Internet crackdown make their kind extinct? |
I got my start in journalism writing for some of the first PC magazines in the early 1980's. I did stints at both PC Week and Mac Week magazines as a reporter and editor. In the early 1990's I wrote some investigative pieces that had nothing to do with high-tech. Redwood Summer, my 1990 California Magazine cover piece, was an inside look at the leaders of Earth First, the radical environmental group. My 1991 expose of Indian gambling and a series of unsolved murders at the Cabazon reservation were featured in four front page San Francisco Chronicle articles. I was asked to testify before Congress, and on October 21, 1991, I spoke before the Employment and Housing Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations. The series was nominated by the Chronicle for a Pulitzer.
My work has also appeared in Forbes, The Village Voice, the San Francisco Examiner and Upside. A native of San Francisco, I graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.A. in Rhetoric in 1982. After graduation I took courses in computer programming and technical writing. My first professional writing assignment in 1983 was a software manual.
I enjoy surfing, golf, cross country skiing, roller blading, hiking, cooking and growing tomatoes. I speak Spanish, and a little Italian and Portuguese.
Jonathan Littman
Mill Valley, California, U.S.A.
jlittman@well.com
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