Clive Thompson (born 1968) is a Canadian freelance journalist, blogger and science and technology writer.
Thompson graduated from the University of Toronto with majors in political science and English. He previously worked for Canada's Report on Business magazine and Shift magazine, then became a freelance contributor for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Lingua Franca, Wired, Shift, Entertainment Weekly and several other publications.
Thompson writes about digital technologies and their social and cultural impact for a number of publications, including the New York Times Magazine[1][2] and Wired.[3][4]
In 2002, he was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT.[5]
Thompson's blog, Collision Detection,[6] started in 2002 and attracts over 3000 hits a day.[7]
Thompson is married to New York Magazine TV critic Emily Nussbaum[8] and lives in Brooklyn.