About the Author

After graduating from MIT in 1980, Bob Seidensticker designed digital hardware, about which he wrote his first book, The Well-Tempered Digital Design (Addison-Wesley, 1986). He has programmed in a dozen computer languages and in environments ranging from punch cards, to one of the first windowing environments, to MS-DOS, to Windows. He is a contributor to 14 software patents and has worked at a number of technology companies from a 10-person startup to Microsoft and IBM. Since leaving Microsoft, he has focused on writing. "Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change" (Berrett-Koehler, 2006) explored technology change-how we see it and how it really works. "Cross Examined: An Unconventional Spiritual Journey" was his first novel. His latest novel is "A Modern Christmas Carol," in which a modern televangelist gets the Scrooge treatment.