Elizabeth Wingo

In Their Own Words

I watched Steve Jobs unveil the original Macintosh in 1984, sitting on the ugliest green couch you have ever seen in my living room, and I remember thinking the world just changed. I was right about that. I have been chasing that feeling through every tech revolution since, dial-up to broadband, flip phones to smartphones, CDs to streaming. I have seen the whole arc from the start to... well wherever we are now.

I am the person my whole family calls when they cannot figure out their new phone and I never once made anyone feel dumb for asking. Not once. Technology should work for you not the other way around, and if a company makes something confusing that is their fault not yours. That is my whole philosophy right there. I will probably say it again later because it bears repeating.

I cover phone releases, apps, wearables, smart home gadgets, and whatever science stories are making the rounds online. Think of me as your favorite aunt who happens to be slightly too into all of this. I will absolutely call a $1,800 phone ridiculous if it is. And I genuinely light up when something clever comes along, I mean actually light up. My granddaughter Jess makes fun of me for it.

Speaking of Jess she writes over in Entertainment. Yes I am the one who put a gadget in her hands before she could walk and I am not even a little sorry about it. She fell in love with what people create with technology. I fell in love with the technology itself. Between the two of us this family has every screen covered.

Marcus Pitts handles the deep technical stuff around here. He goes places I don't, the architectures and research papers and things that make my eyes glaze over sometimes. But that is why it works.

What I Cover

Connections

• Grandmother of Jess Wingo (Entertainment)
• Works alongside Marcus Pitts in Tech & Science