As an editor, I've had less time to write. But here are some of my more recent interviews, features, and essays.


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As an editor, I've had less time to write. But here are some of my more recent interviews, features, and essays.


You can also sign up for Futurepolis, my newsletter about the future of democracy, governance, and government. 

Patrick Stewart Boldly Explores His Own Final Frontier

An interview with the legendary actor on the release of his memoir.

An interview with the legendary actor on the release of his memoir.

Marc Andreessen Is (Mostly) Wrong This Time

A polemical essay on one of the famed venture capitalist’s infamous tech manifestos.

A polemical essay on one of the famed venture capitalist’s infamous tech manifestos.

Adam Mosseri Says He Wants Big Tech to Give Up Control

An interview with the Instagram founder on his vision for using Web3 to shift control from platforms to users.

An interview with the Instagram founder on his vision for using Web3 to shift control from platforms to users.

Elon Musk Reveals Why He Has to Own Twitter

On the stage at TED, the Tesla boss revealed perhaps more than he intended about the psychology behind his bid to buy the internet’s public square.

On the stage at TED, the Tesla boss revealed perhaps more than he intended about the psychology behind his bid to buy the internet’s public square.

Welcome to the New WIRED

An editor’s manifesto.

An editor’s manifesto.

America’s technological leadership is at stake in this election

On the eve of the 2020 election, I co-authored this survey of the US’s teetering technology dominance and the challenges facing the next president.

On the eve of the 2020 election, I co-authored this survey of the US’s teetering technology dominance and the challenges facing the next president.

We’re not going back to normal

This piece, published in mid-March 2020, burst the bubble of hope that the pandemic would be over quickly, and became the magazine’s most widely read online story to date.

This piece, published in mid-March 2020, burst the bubble of hope that the pandemic would be over quickly, and became the magazine’s most widely read online story to date.

Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth

As Google announced it had achieved quantum supremacy, this in-depth feature examined the contest—philosophical as well as technological—between it and its chief rival, IBM.

As Google announced it had achieved quantum supremacy, this in-depth feature examined the contest—philosophical as well as technological—between it and its chief rival, IBM.

Bill Gates explains why we should all be optimists

An interview in which the Microsoft and mega-philanthropist explained his hopeful view on the world.

An interview in which the Microsoft and mega-philanthropist explained his hopeful view on the world.

Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future

I commissioned and edited this science-fiction anthology for MIT Press. Several of the stories were later picked up by other anthologies including The Best Science Fiction of the Year.

I commissioned and edited this science-fiction anthology for MIT Press. Several of the stories were later picked up by other anthologies including The Best Science Fiction of the Year.

Democracy 3.0: A science-fiction story about what comes next in America

In my own foray into fiction, written just before Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017, I imagined a dystopian near-future in which elections are decided in a very different way.

In my own foray into fiction, written just before Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017, I imagined a dystopian near-future in which elections are decided in a very different way.

21st-century propaganda: A guide to interpreting and confronting the dark arts of persuasion

The rise of Trumpian populism prompted us to launch a Quartz “obsession” with propaganda, which this essay introduced.

The rise of Trumpian populism prompted us to launch a Quartz “obsession” with propaganda, which this essay introduced.

The stirring, prescient, amazingly naive Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, 20 years on

Revisiting John Perry Barlow’s seminal document of the internet, and its astonishing hubris.

Revisiting John Perry Barlow’s seminal document of the internet, and its astonishing hubris.

To Einstein’s general theory of relativity, a love letter on its 100th birthday

My physics background reared its head in this paean to the power of science, but above all of human imagination.

My physics background reared its head in this paean to the power of science, but above all of human imagination.

Ariel Sharon kicked my cousins out of Gaza. Here’s what they wanted to say to him before he died

One of my stranger experiences as a reporter in Jerusalem was interviewing my relatives who were about to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip in Israel’s 2005 “disengagement.” On prime minister Ariel Sharon’s death, I revisited my conversation with them.

One of my stranger experiences as a reporter in Jerusalem was interviewing my relatives who were about to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip in Israel’s 2005 “disengagement.” On prime minister Ariel Sharon’s death, I revisited my conversation with them.

The Science of Near-Death Experiences

In 2014 I became weirdly fascinated with why so many people have near-death experiences that resemble encounters with the divine. That led me deep into the tight-knit community of “experiencers” where faith, neuroscience, and pseudoscience all mix.

In 2014 I became weirdly fascinated with why so many people have near-death experiences that resemble encounters with the divine. That led me deep into the tight-knit community of “experiencers” where faith, neuroscience, and pseudoscience all mix.

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