New editor joins MIT Technology Review

A science and technology journalist with over twenty years of experience joined MIT Technology Review this past spring to lead the print magazine alongside editor in chief Mat Honan.

Magazine brings back lists and infographics

The publication has introduced a regular roster of lists and infographics, things that magazines do particularly well, as part of changes now taking shape.

Permission to be audacious

The magazine is giving itself permission to play around and experiment. The editor describes needing a reminder to stop blocking herself and do the thing.

“stop blocking myself and do the thing”

Celebrating impossible ideas

The magazine wanted to end twenty twenty-six with stories about impossible ideas like living on the moon or uploading our brains, because it is frankly a lot of fun to dream about them.

“it's frankly a lot of fun to dream about living on the moon or uploading our brains”

What technology is supposed to do

Scientists and engineers who refuse to give up on daring endeavors like making synthetic blood or decoding animals' speech remind us that technology should take research and apply it to make life better, safer, healthier…

Fixing what we have broken

When technology makes things worse, like forever chemicals, traffic deaths, and AI that encourages potentially dangerous user behavior, we must dig back in, assess the damage, and find ways to fix what we have broken.

Darkness grows when we focus on limits

The editor learned from three years editing a climate newsletter that focusing on what we cannot do only makes the darkness darker.

“focusing on what we can't do only makes the darkness darker”