About

I’m Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University where I’m a member of the Systems Group and Director of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology’s Relevant Knowledge programme.

In addition, I’m also:

  • A columnist on the London Observer;
  • A Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and Director of the College’s Press Fellowship Programme;
  • Academic Adviser to the Arcadia Project;
  • A non-exec director of Ndiyo and of Cambridge Visual Networks (aka Camvine);
  • A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts;
  • A keen (nay fanatical) photographer;
  • A strange combination of taxi-driver and ATM machine (i.e. father of teenage children).

    • This Blog is named after Vannevar Bush’s original concept of a system for associative linking which eventually was realised as hypertext and later as the World Wide Web. The story in told in some detail in my book, A Brief History of the Future: the origins of the Internet.

    Best email address for me: john.jnaughton [at] gmail.com