Samuel Greengard is a contributor to Grit Daily News. He lives and works in West Linn, Oregon. He is the author of the The Internet of Things (MIT Press, 2021), Virtual Reality (MIT Press 2019) and the AARP Crash Course in Finding the Work You Love: The Essential Guide to Reinventing Your Life (Sterling, 2008). He is a past president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He’s served as a guest lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Writer’s Program, and a past instructor for the Writer’s Program at UCLA Extension.