James Essinger
'For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by ideas that have changed the world in a practical sense. I remember when I was a teenager sitting on the top deck of a double-decker bus taking me home from Leicester city centre. I was reading Arthur C. Clarke's Profiles of the Future and came to the passage where he writes about the nineteenth-century British computer pioneer Charles Babbage. Babbage's dreams have been the inspiration for much of my own written work to date.'
I'm James Essinger and I write books about ideas that have had a practical impact on the modern world.
My book Jacquard's Web was published by Oxford University Press on October 28, 2004. It was published in paperback by Oxford University press in March 2007, and is being published later in 2007 in Japanese.
In this website, you'll find out more about some of the ideas that excite me, as well as more about me and what I've written so far.
I'd love to hear from you. Please use the contact form to email me.
The next few pages focus on different people and ideas that feature in Jacquard's Web.