Brian Bergstein is the National

Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and Reproducibility, reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in me ...

Editor for the American

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news agency, based in Boston, Massachusetts. His work focuses mainly on the economic, legal, and social implications of upcoming technologies.

Personal

He is a graduate of

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. Bergstein was raised in

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. He, his wife, and two children currently live in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Awards and honors

From 2004 to 2005, he held one of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships.

Career

Bergstein has been a technology journalist for 13 years. He has worked on the Web, computing, telecom, and in the business of technology from Silicon Valley, New York, and

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. Previously a technology writer for the Associated Press's New York bureau, Bergstein was promoted to Technology Editor in mid-2008 when the AP reorganised to cover stories by topic rather than geographical areas. He has worked as a journalism instructor at

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. He is also deputy editor of MIT Technology Review.

References

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