I study people, technology, and the worlds they make.My latest book, THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION (Little, Brown & Co. 2013) is about contemplative computing, the effort to use information technologies in ways that help you stay focused and be more creative, rather than distracted and fractured.My current writing project is REST: HOW WORKING LESS GETS MORE DONE explores the role that deliberate rest plays in the lives of creative and productive people.I'm a senior consultant at Strategic Business Insights, where I analyze trends in pervasive computing, wearables, and the Internet of Things. I'm also a visiting scholar at Stanford University.I studied history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, and have held fellowships at Williams College, University of California-Berkeley, and Microsoft Research Cambridge. My first book, EMPRIE AND THE SUN: VICTORIAN SOLAR ECLIPSE EXPEDITIONS (Stanford University Press, 2002), is about, well, Victorian solar eclipse expeditions.