Alex Wright

Alex Wright is an American writer who has also worked in the fields of user experience and information design. He is the author of Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age (2014), Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages (2007), and the forthcoming Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented American Media. A revised edition of Glut was published by Cornell University Press in 2023 under the title Informatica. Wright's writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, The Believer, and Communications of the ACM.