How We Disappear
A Personal History of Information
A brilliant foray into the nature of information, of history, and of making meaning in the face of death and decay.
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About Tom
Tom Mullaney is a historian, teacher, curator, archivist, and songwriter. Author of How We Disappear, Mullaney is Professor of History and UNESCO Chair in Digital Futures at Stanford University, a Guggenheim Fellow, and former Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress. He is Director of Stanford's Science, Technology, and Society Program. He also directs SILICON, a Stanford Presidential Initiative advancing endangered, at-risk, and digitally disadvantaged languages worldwide.
How We Disappear is his eighth book, and first with a major trade press.
Latest Work
Radical Machines
MOCA's look at the seemingly impossible machine: a typewriter for a language with no alphabet and more than 70,000 characters, drawn from archives in 15 countries.
October 18, 2018 – March 24, 2019
The Typewriter: An Innovation in Writing
A century of typewriter design at SFO Museum, from the first commercial writing machines of the 1870s to mid-century portables and Asian typewriters built for thousands of characters.
May 13, 2017 – Jan 28, 2018