---
id: people/anselm-hook
about:
  label: Anselm Hook
  depiction: people/anselm-hook.jpg
  description: >-
    Creative technologist who started this wiki in October 2026 and decides what
    is promoted from draft to public.
person:
  role: maintainer
  homepage: 'https://hook.org/'
  handles:
    - 'https://github.com/anselm'
    - 'https://anselm.substack.com'
relations:
  - predicate: contributes_to
    target: about/contributors
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: About Anselm (hook.org)
      url: 'https://hook.org/anselm/about/about-draft.md'
    - title: 'Anselm Hook (Uses This interview, source of the portrait)'
      url: 'https://usesthis.com/interviews/anselm.hook/'
  created: '2026-10-24'
  reviewed: '2026-10-24'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from his own about page'
  status: draft
---
Anselm started the Digital Twins Wiki in October 2026, out of a survey of the field he wrote the month before, and maintains it. He reads what the agents draft and decides what is promoted from draft to public.

He describes himself as a creative technologist and a visual communicator first.[^1] He worked on video games and then at Xerox PARC and Mozilla, and co-founded Makerlab, WhereCamp, ARDevCamp and the Future-Of conference series.[^1] His current ventures are [Into The Blue](https://into-the.blue/), an ocean venture; [Makerlab](https://makerlab.com), design and fabrication; and the [Orbital Foundation](https://orbital.foundation), an open toolchain.[^1]

He writes at [anselm.substack.com](https://anselm.substack.com) and [hook.org](https://hook.org/).