Digital Culture Expert and Contributing Editor to Wired and Rolling Stone magazines & Author of Masters of Doom and Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids

Program Title: Tech Nation: True Tales from the Digital Culture Trail

Raised on a diet of Dungeons & Dragons, video games and computer code, nobody is more qualified to comment on the rise of techno-culture than David Kushner. For over a decade he has chronicled this cutting-edge world in two books and in numerous articles for Rolling Stone, Spin, Salon, and Wired, (where he is a contributing editor) among others, and is now the nation's leading voice on gaming and digital culture.

Kushner’s critically acclaimed book Masters of Doom, soon to be a major motion picture, tells the inside story of the controversial creators of the notorious computer games Doom and Quake. His latest book, Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids (Random House, Fall 2005), chronicles the astonishing real-life story of a gang of young geeks who beat the odds and stormed Las Vegas. At the podium, Kushner brings the players of "Tech Nation" to life with true and inspiring tales from America’s hottest culture and industry.