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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.
Mining technology
21 November 2002
Caves of steel
Mines are getting smarter.
Plus a box on refining ore with bacteria >>>
Technology
tags: mines, The Economist
Waiting, waiting
20 September 2001
Instant-on, magnetically
Magnetic memory chips are poised to give traditional DRAMs a run for their money.
Technology
tags: The Economist
Fidelity
20 September 2001
Seeing is believing
With twice the sharpness of previous screens, a new liquid-crystal display offers images that appear indistinguishable from the real thing.
Technology
tags: The Economist
Not poison
8 September 2001
Arsenic and chips
An old contender’s time has come.
Technology
tags: The Economist
Data transmission
28 June 2001
The glass ceiling
Optical fibres could carry much more information in the future.
Technology
tags: The Economist