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'''Chris Anderson''' (born July 9, 1961)<ref name="Curr Bio"/> is aan British[[English-American]] author and entrepreneur. He was with ''[[The Economist]]'' for seven years before joining ''[[Wired (magazine)|WIREDWired]]'' magazine in 2001, where he was the editor-in-chief until 2012. He is known for his 2004 article entitled ''[["The Long Tail]]'';", which he later expanded into the 2006 book, ''[[The Long Tail (book)|The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More]]''.<ref name=BAnderson2006/> He is the cofounder and current CEO of [[3D Robotics]], a drone manufacturing company.<ref name=DIYD/>
 
==Life and work==
 
===Early life===
Anderson was born in [[London]]. His family moved to the United States, when he was five.<ref name=CA-B-H-01/> He enrolled forin a degree program in [[physics]] fromat [[George Washington University]] and went on to study [[quantum mechanics]] and [[science journalism]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=CA-B-H-02/> He later did research at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]].
 
===Career===
He began his career with a six-year period as editor at the two scientific journals, ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' and ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]''. He then joined ''[[The Economist]]'' in 1994, where he remained for seven years, during which time he was stationed in London, [[Hong Kong]] and [[New York City]] in various positions, ranging from Technology Editor to US Business Editor. He took over as editor of ''WIREDWired'' in 2001.
 
[[File:Chris anderson.JPG|thumb|Chris Anderson speaking in [[Boalt Hall]] at UC Berkeley.]]
His 2004 article ''"The Long Tail''" in ''WIREDWired'' was expanded into a book in 2006, titled, ''[[The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More]]''.<ref name=BAnderson2006/><ref name=CA-W-A-01/> It appeared on ''[[The New York Times]]'' Nonfiction Best Sellers list. The book argues that products in low demand or that have a low sales volume can collectively build a better market share than its rivals, or exceed the relatively few current bestsellers and blockbusters, provided the store or distribution channel is large enough. The book earned Anderson the 2007 [[Gerald Loeb Award]] for Business Book.<ref name="LOEB-2007">{{Cite web |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20070625006020/en/2007-Gerald-Loeb-Award-Winners-Announced-UCLA |title=2007 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management |date=June 25, 2007 |website=[[Business Wire]] |access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref>▼
 
His next book, entitled ''[[Free: The Future of a Radical Price]]'' (2009) examines the advantages of a strategy where products and services are initially given to customers for free, and how businesses can profit more in the long run.<ref name=BAnderson2009/><ref name=CA-B-H-09/><ref name=CA-B-H-10/> Anderson was accused of [[plagiarism|plagiarizing]] content from [[English Wikipedia]] for his book.<ref>{{cite web| last = Jaquith| first = Waldo| title = Chris Anderson's Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism| publisher = The Virginia Quarterly Review| date = June 23, 2009| url = http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/06/23/chris-anderson-free/| accessdate = July 7, 2009-07-07| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090707085124/http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/06/23/chris-anderson-free/| archive-date = July 7, 2009}}</ref> Anderson responded that he had disagreements with the criticism, and reasoned that the mention of citations were avoided due to the changing nature of content in English Wikipedia. However, the whole episode led him to integrate footnotes into the text,<ref name=CA-B-H-12/> and the digital editions of ''Free'' were corrected with the revision. ''Free'' debuted as #12 on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller Listlist]].<ref name="longtail1"/> It was also available as a free download for a limited time, and an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 digital copies were downloaded in the first two weeks.<ref name="longtail1"/> The unabridged audiobook remains free.<ref name=CA-B-H-13/>▼
▲His 2004 article ''The Long Tail'' in ''WIRED'' was expanded into a book in 2006, titled, ''[[The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More]]''.<ref name=BAnderson2006/><ref name=CA-W-A-01/> It appeared on ''[[The New York Times]]'' Nonfiction Best Sellers list. The book argues that products in low demand or that have a low sales volume can collectively build a better market share than its rivals, or exceed the relatively few current bestsellers and blockbusters, provided the store or distribution channel is large enough. The book earned Anderson the 2007 [[Gerald Loeb Award]] for Business Book.<ref name="LOEB-2007">{{Cite web |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20070625006020/en/2007-Gerald-Loeb-Award-Winners-Announced-UCLA |title=2007 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management |date=June 25, 2007 |website=[[Business Wire]] |access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref>
 
▲His next book, entitled ''[[Free: The Future of a Radical Price]]'' (2009) examines the advantages of a strategy where products and services are initially given to customers for free, and how businesses can profit more in the long run.<ref name=BAnderson2009/><ref name=CA-B-H-09/><ref name=CA-B-H-10/> Anderson was accused of [[plagiarism|plagiarizing]] content from [[English Wikipedia]] for his book.<ref>{{cite web| last = Jaquith| first = Waldo| title = Chris Anderson's Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism| publisher = The Virginia Quarterly Review| date = June 23, 2009| url = http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/06/23/chris-anderson-free/| accessdate = 2009-07-07| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090707085124/http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/06/23/chris-anderson-free/| archive-date = July 7, 2009}}</ref> Anderson responded that he had disagreements with the criticism, and reasoned that the mention of citations were avoided due to the changing nature of content in English Wikipedia. However, the whole episode led him to integrate footnotes into the text,<ref name=CA-B-H-12/> and the digital editions of ''Free'' were corrected with the revision. ''Free'' debuted as #12 on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller List.<ref name="longtail1"/> It was also available as a free download for a limited time, and an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 digital copies were downloaded in the first two weeks.<ref name="longtail1"/> The unabridged audiobook remains free.<ref name=CA-B-H-13/>
 
Anderson's third book, ''[[Makers: The New Industrial Revolution]]'' (2012), was based on his 2010 article, "Atoms Are the New Bits".<ref name=CA-W-A-02/> The book describes how entrepreneurs are using open source design, and [[3D printing]] as a platform for driving resurgence of American manufacturing.<ref name=BAnderson2012/> The ideas he portrayed; such as [[crowdsourcing|crowdsourcing of ideas]], utilization of available lower-cost design and manufacturing tools, and reviewing options to outsource capital-intensive manufacturing were highlighted in the February 2012 ''[[Harvard Business Review]]'' article, "From Do It Yourself to Do It Together".<ref name=CA-A-H-01/>
 
Anderson was featured and interviewed on ''The Amp Hour'' radio show in episode #105 – "An Interview with Chris Anderson – Deambulatory Daedal Drones", where he discusses his career, books, and the hardware and drone industry.<ref name=AmpHourInterview>{{cite web|title=The Amp Hour #105 – An Interview with Chris Anderson – Deambulatory Daedal Drones|url=http://www.theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-105-deambulatory-daedal-drones/|work=The Amp Hour|accessdatedate=22July 23, 2012|accessdate=December 22, 2013}}</ref>
 
Around 2017, Chris started [https://diyrobocars.com/ DIYRobocars], a community that builds and races scaled-down autonomous cars utilizing computer vision and deep learning. <ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Chris Anderson on Robocars, Drones and WIRED''Wired'' Magazine|url=https://wandb.ai/site/podcast/chris-anderson|access-date=2021-01-January 26, 2021|website=wandb.ai}}</ref>
 
In 2021 Chris Anderson made an appearance on the [https://wandb.ai/site/podcast/chris-anderson ''Gradient Dissent]'' podcast to talk about his initiatives and ventures, including [[3D Robotics|3DRobotics]] and [https://diyrobocars.com/ DIYRobocars.com]. He spoke about his career journey coming from being a physicist and playing music in a band called R.E.M. to leading ''[[Wired (magazine)|WIRED magazineWired]]'' magazine, getting into drones, robocars, and ''[[The Long Tail (book)|The Long Tail.]] ''.<ref name=":0" />
 
===Ventures===
In 2007, Anderson founded [[GeekDad]], a do-it-yourself blog that later became part of Wired.com. He was the editor until the role was handed over to Ken Denmead, and he now serves as editor emeritus of GeekDad.<ref name=CA-B-H-14/> The same year, Anderson founded Booktour.com, a free online service that connected authors on tour with audiences. In September 2011, Booktour.com folded.<ref name=CA-B-H-16/>
 
In October 2007, Anderson, who has been described as an "aerial-reconnaissance enthusiast,", flew a remote-controlled aircraft allegedly equipped with a camera over [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]], causing security concerns when the aircraft crashed into a tree.<ref name=CA-B-H-17/> The enthusiasm turned inspiration for co-founding [[3D Robotics]], a 2009 robotics manufacturing spin-off of the DIYdrones.com.<ref>[http://www.diydrones.com DIYdrones.com] online community.</ref> 3D Robotics produces the [[Ardupilot]] series of autopilots, which are based on the [[Arduino]] platform.
 
In May 2007, Anderson was featured as one of the top 100 thinkers in ''[[Time Magazine(magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's annual list for 2007.<ref name=CA-B-H-15/>
 
==Personal life==
Anderson currently lives in [[Orinda, California|Orinda]], [[California]], with his wife and five children.<ref>{{cite news|title=How the 'Maker' Movement Plans to Transform the U.S. Economy|first=Sam|last=Gustin| url=http://business.time.com/2012/10/01/how-the-maker-movement-plans-to-transform-the-u-s-economy/ | workmagazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date=October 1, 2012}}</ref> He met his wife while working at the scientific journal, ''Nature''. He has dual [[Multiple citizenship|U.S.-U.K.]] citizenship.<ref name=CA-B-H-01/>
 
==Works==
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<ref name="Curr Bio">{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook 2010|year=2010|publisher=H.W. Wilson|location=Ipswich, MA|isbn=9780824211134|pages=[https://archive.org/details/currentbiography2010unse/page/8 8–11]|chapter=Anderson, Chris|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/currentbiography2010unse/page/8}}</ref>
 
<ref name=DIYD>{{citeCite web|title=DIYDrones/3D Robotic|url=httphttps://wwwdiydrones.com/|title=diydrones|first=Miriam|last=McNabb|website=diydrones.com}}</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-B-H-01>{{cite web|title=Five things about me that may or may not be relevant|url=http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/08/five_things_abo.html|date=4 August 4, 2006|accessdate=September 8, 2012|archive-date=September 201227, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927234316/http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/08/five_things_abo.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-B-H-02>{{cite web|title=Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Wired|url=http://www.internethalloffame.org/about/advisory-board/chris-anderson|accessdate=8 September 8, 2012|archive-date=August 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821154324/https://www.internethalloffame.org/about/advisory-board/chris-anderson|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
<ref name=BAnderson2006>[[#Anderson2006|Anderson, Chris. (2006)]]. The Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more (New York: Hyperion Books)</ref>
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<ref name=CA-A-H-01>Hagel III, John; Seely Brown, John; Davison, Lang (February 18, 2010).[[#HBR-A-39-2012|"From Do It Yourself to Do It Together".]] Harvard Business Review</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-W-A-01>Anderson, Chris (October, 2004).[[#AndersonWA2004|"The Long Tail".]]Wired.com</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-W-A-02>Anderson, Chris (January, 2010).[[#AndersonWA2012|"In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits".]]Wired.com</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-B-H-09>{{cite web |url=http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/05/my_next_book_fr.html |title=My Next Book: "FREE" |publisher=The Long Tail |date=May 20, 2007 |accessdate=December 25, 2011 |archive-date=January 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129162331/http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/05/my_next_book_fr.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-B-H-10>{{cite web |last=Anderson |first=Chris |url=http://www.thelongtail.com/about.html |title=About Me |publisher=Thelongtail.com |accessdate=December 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422143248/http://www.thelongtail.com/about.html |archive-date=April 22, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-B-H-12>{{cite web| last = Anderson | first = Chris| title = Corrections in the digital editions of Free| publisher = The Long Tail| date = July 24, 2009| url = http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/06/corrections-in-the-digital-editions-of-free.html | accessdate = July 7, 2009| archive-07date = July 6, 2009| archive-07url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090706155130/http://www.longtail.com//the_long_tail//2009//06//corrections-in-the-digital-editions-of-free.html| url-status = dead}}</ref>
 
<ref name="longtail1">{{cite web | last = Anderson | first = Chris | title = A New York Times Bestseller! | publisher = The Long Tail | url = http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/07/a-new-york-times-bestseller.html | accessdate = December 9, 2010 | archive-12date = September 7, 2018 | archive-09url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180907193349/http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/07/a-new-york-times-bestseller.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-B-H-13>{{cite web|url=http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/07/free-for-free-first-ebook-and-audiobook-versions-released.html|title=FREE for free: first ebook and audiobook versions released |publisher=The Long Tail| date=July 6, 2009 |accessdate=December 9, 2010|archive-12date=October 17, 2018|archive-09url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017162737/http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/07/free-for-free-first-ebook-and-audiobook-versions-released.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-B-H-14>{{cite web|last=Venables |first=Michael |url=https://www.wired.com/geekdad/ |title=GeekDad |publisher=Wired.com }}</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-B-H-15>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070505051309/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595329_1616107,00.html Profile from ''The Time 100''].</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-B-H-16>{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/booktourcom-closing-up-shop.html |title=BookTour.com is closing up shop |work=Los Angeles Times | date=August 17, 2011 |accessdate=April 12, 2012}}</ref>
 
<ref name=CA-B-H-17>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CC&s_site=contracostatimes&p_multi=CC&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11C5421A8A27E250&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Lab focuses on security after breach, Chief of Wired magazine triggers minor security concerns after remote-controlled plane flies over Berkeley site |publisherwork=[[Contra Costa Times]] |date=October 13, 2007 }}</ref>
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071224055552/http://www.upstream.nl/comments.php?id=710_0_1_0_C ''Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price''] Keynote speech at [https://web.archive.org/web/20071030141925/http://www.nokia.com/A4423681 Nokia World 2007] in Amsterdam on December 5, 2007.
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* {{IMDb name|2518061|Chris Anderson}}
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120727014758/http://theamphour.com/2012/07/23/the-amp-hour-105-deambulatory-daedal-drones/ Chris Anderson discussing DIY drones and his new book "Makers: The New Industrial Revolution" on The Amp Hour podcast]
* {{cite news|last1=Hagel III |first1=John |last2=Seely Brown |first2=John |last3=Davison |first3=Lang |url=http://blogs.hbr.org/bigshift/2010/02/from-do-it-yourself-to-do-it-t.html |title=From Do It Yourself to Do It Together |publisher=Harvard Business Review|date=February 18, 2010 |ref=HBR-A-39-2012}}
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