Smith is the author of
Totally Wired: on the Trail of the Great Dotcom Swindle, which tells the story of
Josh Harris's role in the birth of the
World Wide Web and subsequent
dotcom bubble in New York at the end of the 1990s. Smith also wrote
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, in which he travels across America in search of the nine surviving U.S. astronauts
who walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. His next book
Devil in the Stack: Searching for the Soul of the New Machine, was published in 2024. Smith has made two documentaries for
BBC Four. The first,
Being Neil Armstrong, is a trip across America to explore the personal history of the first person on the Moon. The second,
To Kill a Mockingbird at 50, about how
Monroeville, Alabama, has changed since it was used by
Harper Lee as the setting for
her 1960 novel. ==References==