Jason Pontin
The Boston Globe
Cambridge, MA, United States
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Past articles by Jason:
What the US will be like after we conquer the coronavirus
The war against COVID-19 means we must rely on each other, and reform our institutions. → Read More
A 'Herculean' Study of Scott and Mark Kelly Asks: Are Humans Fit for Space?
Scientists around the world compared the genomes and health changes of twin astronauts. Scott Kelly (left) flew in the International Space Station for a year while Mark Kelly stayed on Earth. → Read More
Al Gore Did Not Invent the Green New Deal, but He Likes It
The former vice president believes we can only address the climate crisis if we fix the crisis in democracy too. → Read More
The Promise—and Heartbreak—of Cancer Genomics
We live in a liminal age of cancer and precision medicine: Despite all the advances science has made, we still know very little and often can do less. → Read More
To Curb Fake News and Hate, We Need a Little Less Speech
Speech on the internet must flow a little less freely if we care about harm or truth. → Read More
The Genetics (and Ethics) of Making Humans Fit for Mars
We could make people less stinky, more resistant to radiation, even less dependent on food and oxygen. But would the new creature be human? → Read More
3-D Printing Is the Future of Factories (for Real This Time)
A technology that for years has been good for making prototypes and tchotchkes promises to usher in a new industrial revolution. → Read More
The 19th-Century Crank Who Tried to Tell Us About the Microbiome
Today’s understanding of the importance of microbes to health was anticipated by a rival to Louis Pasteur. → Read More
Four Rules for Learning How to Talk To Each Other Again
Leading an evidence-based life just might help us have a less-polarized national conversation. → Read More
Is Boston biotech in a bubble?
Get the best of the magazine’s award-winning stories and features right in your e-mail inbox every Sunday. Sign up here. → Read More
Robots Don’t Deserve Workers’ Rights—Yet
Robots haven’t taken over most peoples’ jobs—yet. But as more and more human activities become automated, what will we owe our AI workers? → Read More
The Limits of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
WIRED’s new columnist Jason Pontin on the limits of modern artificial intelligence. → Read More
Silicon Valley's Immortalists Will Help Us All Stay Healthy
All over Silicon Valley and elsewhere, executives follow weird revitalization fads. They think the code of aging can be hacked and death made optional. → Read More
Make America Great Again
The president’s proposed cuts to research funding would cripple American innovation. We should be spending more on R&D, not less. → Read More
How @jason_pontin’s personal troll made @techreview’s comments better
Years of unhappy interactions with an online commenter compelled the publisher of MIT Technology Review to rethink how his site hosts conversations. → Read More
How our publisher tracked down his online troll and changed our comments for the better
Years of unhappy interactions with an online commenter compelled the publisher of MIT Technology Review to rethink how his site hosts conversations. → Read More
The Thinking Behind the 10 Breakthrough Technologies
Here’s what we look for, and what we hope to avoid. → Read More
Imagining the Future of VR at Google
The search giant’s filmmaker on what the new medium does that film cannot. → Read More
Imagining the Future of VR at Google
The search giant’s filmmaker on what the new medium does that film cannot. → Read More
Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, finance, financial industry, blockchain tagged stories
The mission of MIT Technology Review is to equip its audiences with the intelligence to understand a world shaped by technology. → Read More