Adam Becker is a journalist, author, and astrophysicist. His most recent book, More Everything Forever, dismantles tech billionaires’ grandiose delusions about the future of AI and humanity; The New York Times Book Review called it “smart and wonderfully readable.” His critically acclaimed first book, What is Real?, is a subversive history of quantum physics. In addition to his books, Adam has written for The New York Times, TheAtlantic, The BBC, NPR, Fortune, Scientific American, Quanta, New Scientist and many other publications. He has been a science journalism fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, a science communicator in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and a Poynter Fellow at Yale; he is also a two-time recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s book grants. In addition to his writing, Adam is the creator and host of the podcast Dreaming Against the Machine, where he hosts conversations about what a good future could look like. Adam earned his PhD in physics at the University of Michigan. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, photography, touching grass, and being an affable goof. He lives in California.