I was trained as an historian and spent nearly 40 years at IBM in sales and consulting before joining the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota as a Senior Research Fellow. I am the author of a dozen books on European history and two dozen on the history of information technologies and another dozen on business management. My interests focus on the role of information in modern societies: use, management, and history. I just published a history of the use of information, called ALL THE FACTS: A HISTORY OF INFORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1870. I also recently published a book on how whole societies adopted information technologies from the 1940s to the present, called THE DIGITAL FLOOD. All the Facts is the first attempt by any historian to write a national history of information. What a great country to look at!