Hello.

Welcome to this piece of internet I bought

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This is my 'best of me' page. It's a portfolio, not a blog; a collection of the work that I've done over the years of which I am most proud. This is why, in one or two cases (ahem), some of the pieces are getting a little bit dusty. I keep them here because I still think each of them is important - and that as a whole, they give you a very quick scrapbook-view of what is important to me.

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I find the future fascinating. I find a lot of reporting on the future frustrating. Stories with frightening headlines do better web traffic, which skews the public view on where we're heading (and is why so many articles about robots are illustrated by stills from The Terminator franchise). This makes for gloomy reading, speculation masquerading as information, and lots of people saying this or that will be bad, brilliant or apocalyptic - with fewer and fewer people bothering to listen or believe them each time.

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This is what I like most to investigate: who is promising what and why, and who the winners and losers of the next great scientific and technological upheavals will be. The future is not a Netflix series: its our job to understand it and do things, not write off inconvenient truths as plot lines we don't like.

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I don't like catastrophising and I don't like evangelism. I like days reading academic papers like the responsible nerd that I am, in preparation for interviews with people who are the best in their fields. I like talking to people who know more than I do. I like taking everything I know, every paper I've read and every interview I've squeezed out of my (very) old dictaphone and turning that into an article that (I hope), everyone will finish feeling informed and smart and like I was just a little bit funnier than they were expecting me to be.

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If you'd like to get in touch, or commission me to write for you, here's my contact page.

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