Gareth Branwyn is a well-known writer and editor, and a pioneer of both online culture and the maker movement. He is the former editorial director of Make: magazine, was a contributing editor to Wired for twelve years, and a senior editor of Boing Boing (in print). He has also contributed to Esquire, Details, I.D., the Baltimore Sun, and numerous other magazines and dailies. In 1993, Gareth collaborated with Billy Idol on the spoken word lyrics to the opening track on Idol’s album, Cyberpunk. Gareth is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including the Mosaic Quick Tour for Windows: Accessing & Navigating the Internet’s World Wide Web, which was the first book about the World Wide Web, and The Happy Mutant Handbook (with the editors of Boing Boing). His last book, Borg Like Me & Other Tales of Art, Eros, and Embedded Systems, was a best-of collection and “lazy man’s memoir” spanning his over 30-year writing career. Gareth is currently a regular contributor to Make:, Boing Boing, and other online and offline publications.