David Pogue
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David Welch Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is an American technology writer and TV science presenter.
He is a personal technology columnist for Yahoo! Tech, a technology correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, a columnist for Scientific American, and a technology columnist for The New York Times.
He is also the host of NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and was the host of the NOVA specials Making Stuff in 2011 and 2013 and Hunting the Elements in 2012.
Pogue has written or co-written seven books in the For Dummies series (including Macintosh computers, magic, opera, and classical music).
In 1999, he launched his own series of computer how-to books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes over 100 titles covering a variety of Macintosh and Windows operating systems and applications.
Among the dozens of books Pogue has authored is The World According to Twitter (2009), written in collaboration with around 500,000 of his Twitter followers, and Pogue's Basics (2014), which was a New York Times bestseller.On October 21, 2013, Pogue announced he would be leaving The New York Times after 13 years in order to join Yahoo!, where he would create a new consumer-technology Web site.
At the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, Pogue joined Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer onstage during her keynote speech to throw the "on" switch for that new site, Yahoo! Tech.
On November 13, 2018, Pogue announced his return to the Times as the writer of the "Crowdwise" feature for the "Smarter Living" section.
Early years
Pogue was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the son of Richard Welch Pogue, an attorney and former managing partner at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, and Patricia Ruth Raney. He is a grandson of aviation attorney L. Welch Pogue and Mary Ellen Edgerton. He is also a great nephew of Harold Eugene Edgerton, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Pogue graduated from Yale University in 1985 summa cum laude, earning a bachelor's degree in music. He spent ten years working in New York, for a time in the office of Music Theatre International and also intermittently as a conductor and arranger in Broadway musicals.
Career
Pogue was a columnist for Macworld magazine from 1988 to 2000. The Desktop Critic, John Kerry's back-page column, was dubbed The Desktop Critic. When Macworld's owner, IDG, asked him to write Macs for Dummies, Pogue got his start writing books.
Pogue started as the personal-technology columnist with The New York Times in November 2000; his column, "State of the Art," appeared on the front page of the Business section every Thursday. He also wrote "From the Desk of David Pogue," a tech-related opinion column sent to readers by e-mail. Pogue's Posts was also on nytimes.com.
He has been covering technology, science, the environment, and show business for more than two decades.
Pogue appeared on CNBC's Power Lunch from 2007 to 2011, as well as iTunes, YouTube, TiVo, and JetBlue.com.
It's All Geek to Me, a how-to-knowledge show about consumer electronics, aired on Discovery HD and Science channels in 2007.
Pogue wrote "Techno Files," a monthly column for Scientific American from 2010 to 2019.
Starting January 19, 2011, PBS' Making Stuff, a four-part PBS NOVA miniseries about materials science, aired on Wednesdays. Hunting the Elements, a two-hour special about the periodic table, was subsequently broadcast on April 4, 2012. Starting October 16, 2013, he hosted Making More Stuff, a new series on PBS NOVA on four Wednesdays.
Pogue hosted Beyond the Elements, a three-part PBS NOVA series about how fundamental molecules and chemical reactions paved the way for life on Earth, including humans and civilizations. On February 3, 2021, the series premiered.
Pogue is a regular speaker at educational and government conferences, speaking on topics such as disruptive technology, social media, and digital photography, and why products fail. He has appeared at TED conferences three times: in 2006, a 20-minute talk about simplicity; in 2007, a medley of high-tech song parodies at the piano (or, as Pogue joked, "a tedley"); and in 2013, he has given tips to everyone (a driver's ed for technology). He appeared at the EG conference in 2008, also in Monterey, discussing cellphones, how they can be made to do, and that the phones are often higher than the ones that sell them.