Michael Belfiore

About

I started my full-time writing career in 1995 writing software manuals in my hometown of Minneapolis, working for Target, state and local governments, local utilities, and Northwest Airlines (pre-Delta acquisition). After relocating to New York City in 1998, I became a business writer with a technology focus, working for Morgan Stanley and a host of technology startups.In 2003, the year a homebuilt spaceship called SpaceShipOne went supersonic for the first time, I became a freelance journalist focusing on breakthrough technologies. I covered SpaceShipOne for the New York Post, Reuters, and other outlets, then began a run writing articles for Popular Science and Popular Mechanics (including numerous cover stories for both), National Geographic, Financial Times, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and many others.My book Rocketeers (HarperCollins, 2008) is the first to chronicle the birth of the commercial space age, including the startup of SpaceX.My book The Department of Mad Scientists (HarperCollins, 2009) is the first to go behind the scenes at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon agency behind the internet, stealth aircraft, satellite positioning systems, and many other game-changing technologies.These days I write branded content for technology companies including IBM, Dell, and VMware, and publishers including The Economist, IDG/Foundry, and The New York Times.I’m also readying a time travel novel for publication, helping to raise two future women, and learning to play the guitar.