David Shenk is an American writer, lecturer, and songwriter.
He has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet,David Shenk, "If You Build It," Gourmet, May, 2006 Harper's, Wired,David Shenk, "More is Less," Wired, February, 1997 The New Yorker,David Shenk, “DEPT. OF TIMING: It’s Never a Good Moment to Ask Americans to Turn off The TV,” The New Yorker, May 10, 1999 The New Republic,David Shenk, “Hating Gates: The Culture of Microsoft Bashing,” Cover story for The New Republic, January, 1998 The Nation,David Shenk, “Money + Science = Ethics Problems on Campus,” Cover story for The Nation, March 22, 1999. The American Scholar,David Shenk, “Toolmaker, Brain Builder,” The American Scholar, Spring, 2003 NPR,David Shenk, "The Problem with Hypertext," National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," May 14, 1997 and PBS. In mid-2009, he joined The Atlantic as a correspondent. Shenk graduated from Brown University in 1988.
Shenk was also a panelist on the VH1 music review television series Four on the Floor.
Books Shenk has published the following books: Skeleton Key: A Dictionary For Deadheads (1994) (Co-written with Steve Silberman) Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut (1997) The End of Patience: More Notes of Caution on the Information Revolution (1999) The Forgetting: Alzheimer's, Portrait of An Epidemic (2001) The Immortal Game: A History of Chess (2006) The Genius In All Of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong (2010)
Films In 2004, PBS broadcast the Emmy award-winning "The Forgetting," which was inspired by Shenk's book of the same name. The film was directed by Elizabeth Arledge. Shenk appeared in the film and served as a writer and consultant.
In 2006, "The Forgetting" was featured on-screen and read aloud in the Sarah Polley film Away From Her. Polley said that the book was "hugely influential" to her in making the film."Sarah Polley, Home and 'Away," NPR's The Bryant Park Project, January 9, 2008
In 2007, Shenk wrote, produced and directed four short films on Alzheimer's disease."A Quick Look At Alzheimer's: Four "Pocket" Films to Increase Understanding of a 21st Century Epidemic" "
Awards and honors 1995: Fellow, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University 1997: Finalist, McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication PolicyMari Frank, "Protect Your Privacy in the Information Age," KUCI, Irvine, California 1998: Fellow, The Japan Society 2000: Named one of "10 Masters of the New Economy" by CIO magazine. 2001: The Forgetting awarded First Prize, British Medical Association's Popular Medical Book Awards 2004: Shenk's original term "data smog" added to the Oxford English Dictionary 2006: The Immortal Game picked as a Globe and Mail "The Globe 100," The Globe and Mail, Nov. 25, 2006 Top Book of 2006 and Toronto Star Top 100 Book of 2006
References
External links
Shenk's blog at The Atlantic