# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erik-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:46:43.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erik-davis"
name: "Erik Davis"
slug: "erik-davis"
description: "Erik Davis is an American writer, scholar, journalist and public speaker whose writings have ranged from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is perhaps best known for his book Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information, as well as his work on California counterculture, including Burning Man, the human potential movement, and the writings of Philip K. Dick."
tagline: "American historian (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erik_Davis_on_Rebel_Wisdom.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.73
  momentum:             15.07441860465116
  historical:           6.372321333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://techgnosis.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Davis"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "إريك ديفيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "اريك ديفيس (مؤرخ من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Davis"
    title: "Erik Davis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Davis_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Erik Davis (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Davis"
    title: "Erik Davis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Davis"
    title: "Erik Davis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5388552"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump