Andrew Orlowski

Andrew Orlowski (born 1966 in United Kingdom, currently based in San Francisco) has been an investigative journalist and columnist for The Register since 2000.

In 1992 he started an alternative newspaper in Manchester, England called Badpress , and also wrote for Private Eye .

In advantage on behalf of a particular lobby group. This factor is the core of what makes a story great , he argues.

In December, 2004 he was invited to assemble a panel on Techno-utopianism at Harvard Law School s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Orlowski argues that utopianism distracts attention and diverts capital away from solving real infrastructure problems *[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/07/six_things_about_the_bubble/] Technology can help us, he writes on *[http://www.badpress.net/stories/faq.html his FAQ page] But we venerate the machines we have, which aren t very good, and worse, limit ourselves to seeing the world through this machine metaphor. Technology is useful when it makes something we already like to do easier. Technology can t tell us something we don t know. Technology cannot solve problems that don t exist.

= Criticism =

Orlowski has been accused of being a contrarian, a sort of Christopher Hitchens of the Internet.

Orlowski has been described as a professional troll by .

=External links=

*[http://www.badpress.net Andrew Orlowski s personal website]