Peter Lunenfeld is a professor in UCLA’s Design|Media Arts department and on the Digital Humanities and Urban Humanities faculties, and founding director of the Institute for Technology & Aesthetics (The ITA). City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined, is published by Viking/Penguin. Other books and projects include Digital_Humanities (co-author, 2012), The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading (2011), USER (2005), Snap to Grid (2000), The Digital Dialectic (editor, 1999), and the MIT Press Mediawork series. He holds a Ph.D. in Film, Television and New Media from UCLA. http://www.peterlunenfeld.com