Bio

I tell stories on screen and on stage about the unintended consequences of big human ideas. After a career in print journalism I became a television correspondent in 2013, covering the human impact of cutting-edge innovation for a wide variety of outlets, including Al Jazeera and PBS, from locations around the world. I'm now at work on a two-year project for public television, exploring the science of bias and the inherent irrationality of the human mind. Basically, I'm trying to learn how to fight off my own brain, and to teach you to do the same against yours. I'm currently writing a book about the intersection of artificial intelligence and human decision-making. I'm also in development on several television projects, and I regularly speak to corporate, academic, and public audiences about disruptive innovations, and how technology amplifies good and bad human behavior. All of this is my second act: I spent many years in magazines. My last gig in that industry was the best: I was the editor-in-chief of Popular Science, the world's largest science and technology publication.