Career
He is a technology and business columnist at the New York Times and formerly the lead blogger for the New York Times" bits blog. Bilton is a contributor to Vanity Fair, and was part of the 2015 Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit. Bilton"s reporting is credited with helping to lead the Federal Aviation Administration to overturn their long time ban of using cell phones on airplanes.
He is the author of two books: I live in the Future and Here"s how it Works and Hatching Twitter.
The latter was a New York Times best seller and voted Best Book of the Year on The Wall Street Journal Readers Choice. The book was optioned by Lionsgate and is currently being turned into a television series.
He is currently in the process of writing a book about the Silk Road marketplace, which is expected in 2016.
