G. Pascal Zachary

G. Pascal Zachary is a journalist, historian and specialist in the structure and logic of technological change. Zachary covered Microsoft and Silicon Valley in the 1990s for The Wall Street Journal. He later wrote the “Ping” column on innovation for The New York Times. His essays and reportage on technology have appeared in Wired, Technology Review, Spectrum magazine, The San Jose Mercury and many other publications. Zachary is also the author of Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century (1997) and the editor of The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush (2022). 

Zachary has taught technology journalism at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. At Arizona State University, he taught courses on the history of nuclear weapons and the history of consciousness, from the Greeks to Google. His research on digital innovation in sub-Saharan Africa was supported by the Gates foundation and the National Science Foundation. For the PBS network, he co-wrote Code Rush, with director David Winton, about the rise and fall of Netscape.

Zachary lives in northern California with his wife, Constance Okon. He chronicled their early adventures together in his memoir, Married to Africa: a love story.