India
Scott has been to some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of South Asia. His writing has taken him face to face with members of the Bangalore land mafia, into administrative centers responsible for regulating clinical trials, onto the sets of Bollywood films, to the door step of a highly secure space center in Andhra Pradesh, across Tamil Nadu in an all out auto-rickshaw race, and to the E-waste junkyards that reduce dead computers to gold. He lives in an apartment in Chennai with his wife Padma Govindan who works for an NGO that rehabilitates survivors of domestic violence. She continues to be the inspiration for his work.

Writer
Months after graduating from Kenyon College in 2000, Scott was swept up against his will into a world of glossy magazines, model releases and fact checking when he took the job of Senior Editor at the now dead magazine Manhattan Style. Since then he has written freelance articles or a variety of newspapers, magazines, travel guides and television including WIRED, .net , The New York Times, National Geographic Television, Discover,the Wisconsin State Journal, Isthmus, Fodor's Travel Guides, Nerve.com, Dragonfire, India Today, Coreweekly and the Hindustan Times. He maintains two blogs: Bodyhack for Wired News and his own popular website Trailing Technology. He is a member of the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA). Every month he has a new idea for a book, but has yet to sit down and write one.

Anthropologist
Scott received his Master degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2004. By 2005 he had completed all the coursework for the Ph.D. and recieved approval to begin his research on a project tentatively titled Televising Cosmopolitanism: Producing MTV in India. But his career as an athropologist came to an end after he had a series of intense late night visions of himself as a 60 year old professor still caught up in departmental politics. He withdrew from the program and is now on an indefinite leave of absence.