Science Becoming Technology, Technology Entering Society
Amos Zeeberg:
Sci/Tech Journalist
A company building a prototype green-energy storage plant in the dusty Sardinian countryside. Scientists studying the ruins of Pompeii to learn how to make tougher, less polluting concrete. A doctor in Cambodia scanning genomes for potential future pandemics. The petrostate of Azerbaijan building solar farms to send green energy to a Europe deprived of Russian gas. A Japanese tinkerer using AI to sort cucumbers and save his farmer mother time.These are the stories I excavate in farflung corners of the world and tell to readers, clueing them in about where the world is heading and satisfying their curiosity. Stories of science as it becomes technology, and technology as it enters society.
Selected Articles
Reinventing Concrete, the Ancient Roman Way | NY Times
A Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won | WIRED
Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time | NY Times
A Cable Under the Black Sea to Help Europe Go Green | IEEE Spectrum
Neural Networks Need Data to Learn. Even If It’s Fake. | Quanta
Will We Ever Understand What Foods Make Us Healthy? | Aeon
The Search for Our Missing Colors | The New Yorker
Piecing Together the Next Pandemic | NY Times
Could Light-Based Chips Help Power AI? | Quanta
Does Every Person See Their Own Rainbow? | The Atlantic
About Me
I'm a freelance science & technology journalist currently living in Bucharest, Romania, with my wife, three kids, two cats, and one dog. I previously lived in and reported from New York, Virginia, Moscow, London, Tokyo, Phnom Penh, and Rome.Before freelancing, I was an editor of science magazines.
