Benj Edwards | Tech Reporter, Journalist, Historian

Benj Edwards
Tech Reporter, Journalist, Historian

Who I Am

A tech journalist for publications such as The Atlantic,
PCWorld, Macworld, PCMag, How-To Geek, and FastCompany

A former Senior AI Reporter for Ars Technica (2022-2026), originating the beat and guiding the site's coverage of the emerging field

A frequently-referenced video game historian and tech historian in areas
of early video game history, minority and female tech pioneers,
Atari, BBSes, and digitial preservation

Co-author of Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy, published
May 2024 by MIT Press in its Platform Studies series

Editor-in-Chief of Vintage Computing and Gaming since 2005

Contributor to the Retronauts podcast and creator of
The Culture of Tech podcast

Notable Features

AI threatens to rewrite history. Here’s how to protect it (Fast Company)
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again (VC&G)
The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality (Ars Technica)
The Story of the World's First Computer Art (The Atlantic)
The Invention Of The Game Cartridge (Fast Company)
Where Online Services Go When They Die (The Atlantic)
The History of Computer Space (Technologizer)
The Birth of the iPod (Macworld)
Video Games Turn Forty (1UP.com)
Why History Needs Software Piracy (Technologizer)
The Chuck E. Cheese Origin Story (Fast Company)
The Forgotten World of Teletype Computer Games (PCMag)
Inside the Magnavox Odyssey (PC World)
What I learned from burning myself out with AI agents (Ars Technica)
Why Did Dial-Up Modems Make So Much Noise? (How-To Geek)

Notable Interviews

Steve Wozniak, co-founder, Apple, Inc. (Gamasutra)
Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari (VC&G)
Ralph Baer, inventor of TV video games (Game Developer)
Jerry Lawson, black video game pioneer (VC&G)
Carol Shaw, the first female video game designer (VC&G)
Bill Harrison, the first video game hardware guru (VC&G)

Tim Sweeney, founder/CEO, Epic Games (Gamasutra)
Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts (Edge)
Sid Meier, creator of Civilization and Pirates (Gamasutra)
Scott Miller, founder of Apogee/3D Realms (Gamasutra)
Stephen P. Morse, 8086 CPU designer (PC World)
John Linnell of They Might Be Giants (Technologizer)