MARGARET O'MARA
Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair and Professor of American History, University of Washington
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November 18, 2022
No social network lasts forever, but even I didn't think Twitter could go down quite this quickly...
October 4, 2020 ·
Fifty years ago, a journalist-turned-futurist named Alvin Toffler published Future Shock, a...
July 8, 2020
What will we one day make of 2020? What can we make of it now? Attempts to provide on-the-spot...
May 11, 2020 ·
The New York City Marathon winds through all five boroughs, and the Bronx is the last one you hit...
April 20, 2020 ·
It is April 19, six weeks into life, upended. In the last few years I often longed for a pause...
March 13, 2020 ·
A little more than a week ago, my spring to-do list was a long one. I was supposed to be in New...
January 16, 2020 ·
“Silicon Valley is the only place on Earth not trying to figure out how to become Silicon Valley....
October 6, 2019 ·
When I set out to write a history of Silicon Valley that brought politics and policy back into...
September 13, 2019 ·
There are few things better than autumn on a college campus. Leaves are turning, backpacks sharp...
August 3, 2019 ·
Now is the time of year that Seattleites live for: blue skies, warm sun, water and mountains, no...
July 21, 2019 ·
Got back on that jet plane to Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley for the second week of...
July 14, 2019 ·
It was a whirlwind of a week in New York and Washington D.C. for the release of The Code. I'm...
June 11, 2019 ·
About six years ago, I set out to write the book that I had been wanting to read ever since I...
January 22, 2019 ·
Now that the book is done (more below!), I’m looking forward to sharing new and related pieces of...
