Scott T. Grusky holds an M.A. in economics from Harvard University and has written one other sci-fi novel, Silicon Sunset. In the 1990s, he covered the emergence of the World Wide Web, writing for Internet World, Connect-Time, Los Angeles Times and many other publications, but it is his last two decades of slogging in the trenches as a developer of high-profile websites that qualify him to speculate on the future of technology.