David Pescovitz (david@pesco.net) thinks and writes about technology, science, and culture from his home in San Francisco. He is the writer-in-residence for UC Berkeley's College of Engineering and the Berkeley Sciences and also co-edits the popular weblog BoingBoing.net. He is the co-author of the book Reality Check (HardWired, 1996), based on his long-running futurist column in Wired magazine where he is still a contributing writer. Pescovitz is also a contributing editor to TheFeature.com and has written for Scientific American, Popular Science, Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and New Scientist, among many other publications. In 2002, he won the Foresight Prize in Communication, recognizing excellence in educating the public and research community about nanotechnology and other emerging technologies. Pescovitz holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Electronic Media from the University of Cincinnati and a Master's in Journalism from UC Berkeley.