I am a freelance writer and editor in Boston.
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I've been executive editor of MIT Technology Review, where I helped lead our overall editorial coverage and worked with fantastic writers on big ideas. We were nominated twice for the National Magazine Award in general excellence. I oversaw big editorial packages like 10 Breakthrough Technologies, 35 Innovators Under 35, and 50 Smartest Companies. In 2017 I conceived and edited a special issue on artificial intelligence.
In 2017 and 2018 I served as the founding editor of Neo.Life, a publication begun by one of the founders of Wired to chronicle the ways technology is changing biology. Currently I serve as Neo.Life's editor at large. Look for our anthology about the future of humans in early 2020.
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I remain a contributor at MIT Technology Review and also have written lately for OneZero, Elemental, the Boston Globe, and Bostonia. I delivered a keynote address about AI at the Innovation Research Interchange's Springboard conference in 2018.
Once upon a time I was technology and media editor for The Associated Press, after stints as a telecom and technology beat writer and as the Silicon Valley correspondent. In 2004-05, I was a Knight Fellow in Science Journalism at MIT.
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FEATURE WRITING
Selected articles
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ISN'T AS ADVANCED AS IT SEEMS
THE BRAIN IS AS DARK AS EVER
THE UNIVERSE IS REAL—AND IT'S SPECTACULAR
WHY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ISN'T TRANSFORMING MOST COMPANIES YET
IS FUSION POWER FINALLY CLOSE?
THE ROBOT THAT COOKED MY DINNER
HOW BASIC INCOME COULD WORK
THE GREAT AI PARADOX
LET'S ALL FUND ALTERNATIVES TO FACEBOOK
WHERE DO YOU GET TECH SUPPORT ON A BIONIC HAND?
THE PROBLEM WITH OUR DATA OBSESSION
WHAT IF APPLE IS WRONG?
THE DEFERRED DREAMS OF MARS
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