Michael Bywater
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Michael Bywater is a British writer and broadcaster.
He was at school at Nottingham High School. He has been a long-running columnist for the Independent on Sunday, an early futurist for The Observer, spent ten years on the staff of Punch, where he wrote the Bargepole column, as well as having written regularly for The Times, been a contributing editor to Cosmopolitan and Woman's Journal. He also regularly writes about high-tech stuff for the Daily Telegraph and a wide variety of technology magazines. He is said to be cultural critic for the New Statesman. He also supervises on the Tragedy paper for a number of Cambridge colleges and, in 2006, was Writer-in-Residence at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He also collaborated with friend Douglas Adams on three computer games.
His book, Lost Worlds, on the human tendency towards nostalgia, was published in 2004, and his book, Big Babies, on the infantilization of Western culture, was published in November 2006. A book on his journeys around the Australian Outback in a Cessna 172 continues to be a work in progress, due out 'soon'.
He is a certified pilot, harpsichordist, has one daughter and owns a pair of crocodile shoes.
