Walt Mossberg is writing a book

Our friend Walt Mossberg may have retired, but that doesn’t mean he’s out of things to

say: he’s signed a deal with St. Martin’s Press to write a book about the incredible rise of tech over the past 40 years, and what’s to come in the next decade. Tim Bartlett will be the editor. The book is scheduled to come out in the early fall of 2019. “I’m going to take about a year to write it,” Walt tells me, suggesting his final column is “not a bad outline.” “EVERY SINGLE THING THAT’S DIGITAL — THE IPOD, YOUR FAVORITE LAPTOP, YOUR PHONE — IT’S ALL LESS THAN 40 YEARS OLD.” “It’s about the unbelievably compressed period in which the personal tech revolution has changed the world at every level, in every walk of life,” he says. “Every single thing that’s digital — e-readers, the iPod, your favorite laptop, your phone — it’s all less than 40 years old. It’s younger than Starbucks. It’s younger than Disneyland. And it began to get massive traction in the ‘90s, when I entered the picture.” Of course, the book will feature tons of products and stories about the people behind them. “Some of the products were flops, but they mattered,” says Walt. “There’ll be people like Jobs and Gates, but also other people like Jeff Hawkins and Philippe Kahn, who did the first camera phone.”                                                                                 https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/16/16480894/walt-mossberg-book-deal-personal-tech-revolution