Canadian CHRIS TURNER is an award-winning magazine journalist. His pop culture and technology reporting and essays for Shift magazine earned him six National Magazine Awards in the last three years, including the President's Medal for General Excellence in 2001, the highest honor in Canadian magazine writing. His Shift essay, "The Simpsons Generation" (the genesis of this book) appeared in September 2002. He is a regular contributor to Time and The Globe and Mail. He lives in Alberta.