Michael Bhaskar

Michael Bhaskar is a writer, publisher, researcher and entrepreneur. He is Co-Founder of Canelo, a new kind of publishing company and Europe's fastest growing independent publisher. Between 2017 and 2019 he was a consultant Writer in Residence at DeepMind, the world's leading AI research lab.

He has written and talked extensively about the future of media and technology around the world. He has been featured in and written for The Guardian, The FT, and Wired and on BBC 2, the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4 and NPR amongst others. Michael has been a British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur, a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow and a Visiting Researcher at Oxford Brookes University.

His latest book is Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking. He has written a prize-winning monograph, The Content Machine, and Curation: The Power of Selection in a World of Excess. He is also the lead author of the Literature in the 21st Century report, co-editor of the recently published Oxford Handbook of Publishing. His books have been translated into nine languages, and he can be found on Twitter as @michaelbhaskar.