Adam Hanft

Adam Hanft is a writer, cultural critic and entrepreneur. He writes for the Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Fast Company and the Barnes & Noble Review, and has been published in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe and elsewhere. He has covered subjects as diverse as the effect of anti-anxiety drugs on the economic meltdown, how surveys are used to manipulate the media, and Detroit's marketing failures. An expert on digital culture and its impact, Hanft served as an unpaid advisor on President Obama's technology task force during the campaign.

Hanft has been a frequent commentator on Public Radio's "Marketplace" and for five years wrote the "Grist" column on business trends for Inc. magazine. He is also the co-author (with Faith Popcorn) of the Dictionary of the Future, which Wired called "...a memetic encyclopedia of what's to come, an engaging crash course in bleeding-edge ideas and debatable issues...it's an entertaining and enlightening trip."

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of New York University, he is also the founder and CEO of Hanft Unlimited, a strategic marketing and advertising agency in New York. Hanft resides on Long Island with his wife, Flora. They have two grown and fantastic children, Simon and Lucas.