David Kirkpatrick

David Kirkpatrick is the author of the definitive book on Facebook, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World, published by Simon & Schuster in North America and Australia, also in the UK, British Commonwealth, Germany, Russia, China, Korea, Japan, Spain, Latin America and elsewhere. He was for many years senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune, which he joined in 1983.  

He wrote numerous cover stories about Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Sun, Intel, and numerous other subjects, features on subjects including Facebook, MySpace, Second Life, the safety of cellphones and Technology in China, plus his weekly "Fast Forward" column. Kirkpatrick is regularly ranked one of the world’s top technology journalists.  

He  created Fortune's Brainstorm brand, beginning with a 2001 conference in Aspen that ran for five years. Now, with a group of former Fortune colleagues, he has organized a conference and media company called Techonomy, focusing on the centrality of technology innovation for all spheres of human activity. The first event took place in August at Lake Tahoe