Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani author best known for his novels Moth Smoke (2000) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). Mohsin is interested in how connective technology, whilst liberating in many ways, can also lead us to become machine like and place our thoughts in a space that is far from private. He believes that writing by hand is not only useful in terms of privacy and solitude, but may actually help him write, if not better books, in a very different way.