Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is a Research Director at the Institute for the Future. Alex brings strong historical and theoretical perspectives to his work on the future of pervasive computing, the end of cyberspace, and the coevolution of technology and society. He is also the founding editor of IFTF's Future Now, the Institute's blog on emerging technologies, and is involved in other Institute experiments involving social networking media, new publishing platforms, and futures research.

Before coming to IFTF, Alex served as managing editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he oversaw its transition from print to electronic publication. He also taught at Williams College and the University of California, Davis, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Alex is the author of Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions (Stanford University Press, 2002). His articles have appeared in a variety of scholar and popular publications, including the British Journal for the History of Science, Isis, American Heritage of Invention and Technology, the Los Angeles Times, and Atlantic Monthly. He is currently writing a book on the rise and fall of cyberspace.

Alex holds a Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.