John Naughton is Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge University’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), where he co-directed the 'Conspiracy and Democracy' and 'Technology and Democracy' projects; Director of the Press Fellowship Programme at Wolfson College, Cambridge; Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University; an Adjunct Professor at University College, Cork; and the Technology columnist of the London Observer newspaper.