Who should write about science and technology?

          In The 'Sobel Effect' by David Phillip Miller, the author poses the idea about who should wirte about science and technology. The author argues that only experts of their respective fields should write about a topic. However, I disagree with his argument. After reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, The Leviathan and the Air Pump by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, and On the Electrodynamics of Stationary Objects by Peter J. Fimmel, I have concluded that anyone with adequate knowledge about science and technology can write on the topics; it is not the writer that it is dependent on but the reader.
         Each author has his or her own strengths that appeal to different audiences. The work by Bryson was very well written and easily understood. There were no terms that I had to look up and no concepts that I did not understand. It was a very good read that would appeal to anyone. In contrast, The Leviathan and the Air Pump and On the Electrodynamics of Stationary Objects were not very easy reads. Both of the works required the reader to have prior knowledge about the subjects. These works were written for special audiences, historians and scientests, respectively. Overall, I think that each of the authors had specific audiences that they were addressing, and each of them were successful in doing so.