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Editor in Chief and Publisher
I'm the editor in chief and the publisher of MIT Technology Review. That means I direct the editorial, platform development, and general business strategy of the company's digital and print publications, as well as our events.
Before joining MIT Technology Review in 2004, I was the editor in chief of a now-vanished biotechnology magazine I founded. Between 1996 and 2002, I was the editor of Red Herring magazine, which the Wall Street Journal called the "bible of the dot.com boom." I grew up on a farm in Northern California, where my mother raised game birds for the restaurants of San Francisco, but I was educated in England, at Harrow School and Oxford University. Consequently, my accent wanders alarmingly.
UPDATE 5.17.2005: Last night, Mark Whittaker, Newsweek's Editor, retracted Michael Isikoff's report that the guards at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Koran. He remains mulish on the subject, however: he says retraction was the word people needed to hear and doesn't...
Andrew Sullivan makes a moving case that the combination of free markets, free societies, and free minds are genuinely enlightening. There is a kind of progress--uncertain and fragile, to be sure--in human affairs when ideas are tested and discarded in...
Wade Roush, Technology Review's senior editor and San Francisco bureau chief, is working on a long cover story about something he calls continuous computing. To try out some of his ideas, he has created a blog on the subject. Have...
5.13.2005 UPDATE: This story has been altered to note that I commissioned "Carly's Way," Michelle Delio's story about an unnamed Hewlett Packard executive. On Monday, Wired News published an investigation by Adam Penenberg into the reporting of Michelle Delio (pictured),...
Victorian ladies and gentlemen of a literary bent sometimes kept what they called a "commonplace book." Into a commonplace book went cuttings from journals and newspapers, scraps of prose or poetry that struck the compiler as relevant to her interests,...
