NYT Blogger and New Author Nick Bilton Talks About the Future (Where He Apparently Lives)

August 25, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown headed on down to the metalish-tube-clad HQ of the New York Times (NYT) to pay a visit on “Bits” head blogger Nick Bilton.

Bilton, who is one of the few tech reporters with programming cred, brings a geek-flavored sensibility to the newspaper’s online tech coverage.

Consider a recent story about a product called E-mail Classifier with the adorkable lede:

“My e-mail inbox is a dejected, endless morass. It’s a desolate wasteland of unanswered messages that continue to appear like a never ending game of Tetris.”

Happily, the tone of his new book–“I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted”–is much more tech-friendly.

In fact, he said in a chat yesterday, one of its aims is to beat back some of the scarier books blaming the dumbing-down Internet for everything except the BP oil spill.

Here is my video interview with Bilton at the Times’ cafeteria about the book, which comes out in a few weeks:

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disqus doesn’t work, even in internet explorer where i don’t block anything. can’t see any comments, but can make them, lol.
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the audio of this interview is really bad in and it makes it difficult to understand what he is saying… the volume levels for the interviewee are very low and the volume for the interviewer is a lot higher.
Also, a mistake that rookie media reporters do is to constantly feel like they have to say ‘right, yes, hmm…etc. This also makes it difficult to understand the answers.