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I edited and wrote part of a short book published by New America in July 2015 and freely available online, about how drones are being used in new ways around the world. It's meant to be useful to people who want to fly drones.The Pioneer Detectives
I published a short book with The Millions.
It's the story of the Pioneer Anomaly, a long-standing mystery. The book is short and fun—the length of a novella—but also, in the words of Amazon's reviewer, "powerful and sad". If you've got any curiosity about how NASA works behind the scenes or why scientists believe what they do, I think you'll enjoy the book.
It is available on Amazon as a Kindle Single and also on Apple's iBooks.Drone Wars
I wrote a chapter on the long history of drone technology going back to the early 20th century in this edited Cambridge University Press volume.
The All-American iPhone
9 June 2016
What would it take to make iPhones in the US?
A thought experiment; doing so profitably is possible.
[MIT Technology Review]
Refrigerator factory diary
8 August 2008
Birth of the cool
Notes from The Little Tramp’s stamping ground
Telecoms in Mexico
10 July 2008
Slim’s pickings
More competition should help to drive down exorbitant phone charges
Face value
13 October 2005
The master builder
How Lorenzo Zambrano built a global leader from modest origins in Mexico
Bankruptcy
7 July 2005
Round and round
A cross-border battle over a bankrupt Mexican satellite provider
The triumphs and travails of Ricardo Salinas Pliego
2 June 2005
Going South
A Mexican tycoon quits New York
The Shipping Boom
22 July 2004
On the crest of a wave?
Things have been so good in the bulk-shipping market that it is hard to believe they can stay that way
with Iain Carson
Business News
tags: The Economist
Shipping in China
19 February 2004
China’s shipping boom
Chinese shipping, and shipbuilding, are sailing swiftly
with Iain Carson
Business News
tags: The Economist
Mobile telephony
11 September 2003
The victor divides the calls
A war over mobile phones in Iraq.
Business News
tags: Iraq, The Economist