Finn Brunton is an American research and writer, specialising in artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and cryptography, best known for his publications Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency (2019), Communication (2019), Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest (2015), and Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (2013). He is also an associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]