Tom Standage
He first joined the paper in 1998 as a science correspondent and was successively appointed technology editor, business editor, and finally, digital editor. Born and raised in England, Standage graduated from Oxford University with a degree in engineering and computing. He began his career in journalism as a science and technology writer for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph where he was deputy editor of the technology supplement, Connected.
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- Journalist & author
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Standage 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).
Tom Standage, UK, Deputy Editor at The Economist, at the SXSW London festival hosted in London, England during June 2025.
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• Born — 1969 • Birthplace — England, United Kingdom • Occupation — Journalist & author
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Tom Standage (born 1969) is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Tom Standage was born in 1969.
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Early life and career
Standage was born in Greenwich, in South East London, the eldest of his parents' three sons. He attended Oxford University where he studied engineering and computing. He then went on to work as a science and technology writer for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. Standage often bases his writing on the areas of science, technology and business on historical analogies. He has published a collection of articles and surveys from The Economist and six books, including The Victorian Internet, a history of the development of the telegraph and the social ramifications associated with it. Standage argues that the development of the internet mirrors that of the telegraph in that both represented dramatic increases in the speed and transmission of information, and because both were controversial in their time for perceived and actual negative consequences. Standage's most recent work includes Writing on the Wall (2013). Standage is the drummer in the band Sebastopol.
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• The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine • The Victorian Internet • The Neptune File • A History of the World in 6 Glasses • The Future of Technology • An Edible History of Humanity • Writing on the Wall: Social Media—The First 2,000 Years • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
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