Tom Standage (born 1969)[1] is a British journalist, author, and editorial executive currently working as the Deputy Editor of The Economist newspaper under editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes.

Born and raised in England, Standage graduated from Oxford University with a degree in engineering and computing.

Standage is the author of six books including The Victorian Internet (1998), A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2005), and Writing on the Wall (2013).

He has published a collection of articles and surveys from The Economist and six books, including The Victorian Internet,[4] a history of the development of the telegraph and the social ramifications associated with it.

Standage argues that the development of the internet mirrors that of the telegraph in that both represented dramatic increases in the speed and transmission of information, and because both were controversial in their time for perceived and actual negative consequences.