DavidKirkpatrick

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David Kirkpatrick, senior editor for internet and technology at FORTUNE, specializes in the computer and technology industries, as well as in the impact of the Internet on business and society. His Fast Forward column appears weekly on fortune.com, CNNMoney.com and through free e-mail subscription. Kirkpatrick joined Time Inc. in 197 8 while working as a video artist, and started at FORTUNE in 1983 . In 1990 his cover story “Will You Be Able to Retire?” was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in the personal service journalism category. It became the most-reprinted Fortune story ever. In 1991 he began covering the computer beat. He has written cover stories on Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Sun, and numerous other topics including blogging. Marketing Computers has repeatedly ranked him among the top five most influential technology journalists in the country. Kirkpatrick spearheaded the development of Brainstorm, a multi-disciplinary conference which brings together global leaders from business, technology, government, NGOs, and other fields to interact and discuss the future. Guests attending this small conference, first held in 2001, have included President Bill Clinton (three times), King Abdullah of Jordan, Shimon Peres, Michael Eisner, Meg Whitman, Sergei Brin, Larry Page, and the leaders of Human Rights Watch and Environmental Defense. Brainstorm takes place annually in Aspen and is produced in partnership with the Aspen Institute. Kirkpatrick appears frequently as a technology industry expert on CNN, CNBC and PBS. In early 2002 he was listed in “Richard Saul Wurman’s Who’s Really Who: The 1,000 Most Creative Individuals in the United States.” Kirkpatrick is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.He has a B.A. in English from Amherst College, and attended art school for two years.