About
For over three decades, Tristan has been helping people understand the impact of technology on our society and culture. He has written for a number of publications over the years including Forbes, The New York Times, Fast Company, Business Insider, The Times (of London), and more.
He was principal research editor and co-writer on five early technology guide: Net.Games, Net.Money, Net.Sports, Net.Trek, and Net.Tech. After that turn as editor, Tristan was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Internet.com (Initially named iWorld), the first daily technology news website in the world, and founding Editor-in-Chief of Developer.com, one of the largest development related website on the internet at the time.
He has written weekly technology columns for Forbes Magazine, Insider, The Silicon Alley Reporter, and The (New York) Observer and wrote an internationally syndicated column (“Tristan Louis on Technology“) from 2000 to 2007, which was carried globally by 37 newspapers. His writing has also been published by The New York Times, The (London) Times, IEEE Spectrum, Fast Company, and many tech publications.
Featured Work
QUIET _____
For Roza Katz, accidental millionaire and millenial queer writer in search of an identity, those questions are more than just the kind of things that would go in a query letter? They are a puzzle box she needs answers to...
... and it could very well be that the only person who can help her is on death row, with only weeks remaining.
Coursing from 1920s Ukraine to present-day Oregon, "QUIET _____" follows three generations as they attempt to survive in a world that consistently sees them differently. Aspiring to being the perfect balance of systemic malfeasance and shifting viewpoints like Hernan Diaz's Trust with the multi-generational otherness of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko's and the small-town silence of James McBride's Heaven & Earth Grocery Story, it aims to answer the fundamental question: are you safer when you say quiet or when you get loud?
