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Peter Haynes

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    • SUMMARY

      Former New York Bureau Chief and US Business Editor of The Economist who morphed into Senior Director of Advanced Strategies and Research at Microsoft, and then into start-up founder, funder and advisor. Confused? Me too.

      ▪ Co-founder and vice president at Polyverse, a fast-growing cybersecurity company that uses advanced Moving Target Defense technologies to render cyberattacks against organisations' digital assets essentially impossible.

       

      ▪ After a 16-year break, resumed writing for The Economist in 2014 as a contributor, mostly on science, technology and business. Well over 70 of my articles have been published since then; most are listed below.

       

      ▪ Investor at SeekOut, an AI-driven candidate-sourcing solution for recruiters that draws on a global database of 420m+ profiles, and offers best-in-class faceted search plus a host of other unique and powerful tools.

       

      ▪ Member of the technical board of advisors and investor at Votem, which is developing an advanced mobile voting platform designed to securely cast votes in elections across the globe.

       

      Past:
      ▪ Senior Fellow (nonresident) at the Atlantic Council, a DC think-tank, focused on the philosophy of technology, plus ethics and policy in rapidly changing fields such as AI, big data and cybersecurity.

       

      ▪ Senior Director, Advanced Strategies and Research at Microsoft, driving long-term technology strategy, philosophy and policy in areas including cybersecurity, big data, the IoT, AI and quantum computing.

      ▪ Award-winning journalist and editor at The Economist, writing 800+ articles and editorials over 12 years, and serving as its US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, among other roles (plus since 2014 as a contributor of 70+ additional articles).


      ▪ Co-Founder of Oxford Economic Research Associates, now a major European consultancy.

      ▪ Presenter of BBC Radio 4's "Analysis" and regular commentator on NPR's "Marketplace".


      ▪ Senior Researcher at the UK's Institute for Fiscal Studies and National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

       

      Education:

      ▪ Oxford University, Keble College: MA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

       

      For full résumé, see LinkedIn.

    • THE ECONOMIST

      I've written close to 900 articles for The Economist over the years. Below are links to those penned as a contributor since 2014 (most of my 1985-97 articles aren't yet online):

      — 2017 —

       

      An ill wind (November 9th 2017)

      Livestock farms smell. The answer could involve titanium dioxide and disco lights.

       

      Pop! (August 31st 2017)

      How nano-lasers can blow up cancer cells from the inside and stop tumours from metastasising

       

      Winging the blues (August 3rd 2017)

      A promising new way to make holograms, inspired by the wings of South America's blue morpho butterfly

       

      Wide-eyed and lensless (July 6th 2017)

      Tomorrow's cameras: no lenses, no mirrors and a few microns thick

       

      Does one thing lead to another? (June 8th 2017)

      Some thoughts on quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and the nature of time and causality

       

      Parsing gas (May 18th 2017)

      Globally, 660m+ people rely on “unimproved” water. An intriguing way to make it safely potable

       

      Stream slip (April 27th 2017)

      That racy film you probably shouldn't have enjoyed on Netflix last week? New algorithms know what it was

       

       

      — 2014 —

       

      A big bet on small (TQ remix) (December 6th 2014)

      Reprised for Technology Quarterly: has Lockheed unlocked the mystery of commercial nuclear fusion?

       

      A diet to die for (November 29th 2014)

      What are vultures dining on this Thanksgiving? You really don't want to know

       

      Flight risk (November 15th 2014)

      Do birds have some kind of gyroscope in their brain?

       

      Grid unlocked (October 18th 2014)

      Are "microgrids as a service" the future of power generation?

       

      A big bet on small (October 17th 2014)

      Can Lockheed Martin really make fusion power a reality within a decade?

       

      Unsustainable energy (October 11th 2014)

      Some thoughts on falling oil prices and panicking oil companies

       

      Adapting to plug-ins (October 4th 2014)

      Electric cars could help save power utilities from their death spiral

       

      Caging the Li-ion (September 13th 2014)

      A way forward for lithium battery technology

       

      End-to-end game (September 6th 2014)

      The commodities giants that nobody has heard of

       

      In the moment of the heat (TQ remix) (September 6th 2014)

      Now in the magazine's Technology Quarterly section: To save energy, heat people, not buildings

       

      Shale game (August 30th 2014)

      China's shale-gas dreams prove to be just that

       

      Hot rocks (August 16th 2014)

      Why geothermal energy may spark the next fracking debate

       

      Picking up steam (August 2nd 2014)

      A hot and steamy technology

       

      Equal and opposite (July 8th, 2014)

      Is the brain a quantum machine?

       

      Time out of joint (July 8th, 2014)

      How well will Android Wear wear?

       

      The incorporated woman (June 27th, 2014)

      How one woman is taking back control of her personal data

       

      Go time or past time? (June 17th, 2014)

      Will it be second-time lucky for GoDaddy's IPO?

       

      In the moment of the heat (June 16th, 2014)

      To save energy, heat people, not buildings

       

      Cognitive dissonance (June 12th, 2014)

      Exactly how do bees find their way hiveward?

       

      First makers, now menders (June 9th, 2014)

      The growing global network of repair cafés

       

      The high-tech world of old-world watches (June 5th, 2014)

      Mechanical watches are leaving their digital cousins in the dust with high-tech materials and cool designs

       

      Yours to cut out and keep (TQ remix) (June 5th, 2014)

      Now in the magazine's Technology Quarterly section: What if microscopes cost less than a dollar?

       

      Divided we stand (May 22nd, 2014)

      What can computer-security strategists learn from biodiversity?

       

      An itch to twitch (May 22nd, 2014)

      Why Google is interested in Twitch

       

      Escargot to go (May 21st, 2014)

      Is lobbing snails over your neighbour's fence a smart gardening strategy?

       

      Wheeler dealing (May 15th, 2014)

      Thoughts on the FCC's net-neutrality proposals

       

      Camels and bats and MERS, oh my (May 14th, 2014)

      Some musings on MERS

       

      Beats nicked (May 13th, 2014)

      What's really behind Apple's rumoured interest in Beats Electronics

       

      Privet equity (May 8th, 2014)

      How rosy is the future for America's corporate gardeners?

       

      A GPS for ancestry (May 2nd, 2014)

      Can your GPS find its way to 1,000 years in the past?

       

      Unearthing a 13th-century multiverse (April 30th, 2014)

      Unearthing a medieval multiverse: a morality tale for the STEM-education brigade

       

      More equal than others (April 25th, 2014)

      Some thoughts on the FCC's new net-neutrality plans

       

      Robocopulation (April 25th, 2014)

      On the use of robots to model evolution

       

      Baked brains (April 16th, 2014)

      The problem with recreational marijuana use

       

      Yours to cut out and keep (April 14th, 2014)

      What if microscopes cost less than a dollar?

       

      Picking over the traces (April 3rd, 2014)

      Human artefacts as technofossils

       

      Big asspirations (April 1st, 2014)

      Not an April Fool: a profile of one of America's most intriguing firms, Big Ass Solutions

       

      Locking horns (March 28th, 2014)

      A mini-story on dueling plants

       

      Secrets and lies (March 22nd, 2014)

      Why cyberbullying apps will fail

       

      Through the sound barrier (March 19th, 2014)

      Using metamaterials to create an acoustic invisibility cloak

       

      A case of the vapers (March 17th, 2014)

      Patent wars in the e-cigarette business

       

      Slotting in an explanation (March 14th, 2014)

      Why compulsive gamblers keep on shelling out

       

      A perfect life (March 13th, 2014)

      A tribute to Robert Ashley, one of the past century's most innovative composers

       

      Anything you can do... (March 11th, 2014)

      Prisoners think they are more honest than you are

       

      It's the alcohol talking (March 6th, 2014)

      How to communicate via an alcoholic haze

       

      Innocence abroad (March 6th, 2014)

      America's view of offshoring is off base

       

      Even cows need study buddies (March 6th, 2014)

      Cows are smart. Farmers need to help them stay that way

       

      After Mt Gox (March 5th, 2014)

      More troubles in Bitcoinland

       

      Dead brand walking (March 4th, 2014)

      RadioShack looks set to follow Circuit City into retail oblivion

       

      Mt Gone (February 25th, 2014)

      With the implosion of Mt Gox, Bitcoin's Wild West just got a whole lot wilder

       

      Market madness (February 21st, 2014)

      Turns out that stockmarkets really do drive you crazy

       

      Massaged parlous (February 21st, 2014)

      The new curiosity shops, and why they are failing

       

      Undriven snow (February 13th, 2014)

      Winter's way of calming traffic

       

      Channelling Superman (February 12th, 2014)

      Online games affect the way in which people act more than they think

       

      Small but imperfectly formed (February 7th, 2014)

      Some thoughts on nanomanufacturing in America

       

      Mo’ Time for Motown (February 5th, 2014)

      Shinola's attempt to make Detroit America's watchmaking capital

       

      Slow food movement (January 30th, 2014)

      A tale of moths and sloths

       

      Breaking breaktime's rules (January 29th, 2014)

      The value of a free-range childhood

       

      We, robots (January 21nd, 2014)

      Creating a hive mind for robots

       

      Memory in plants (January 19th, 2014)

      Plants not only learn from experience; they also remember what they've learned

       

      Unsafe and sound (January 18th, 2014)

      Ciphers can now be broken by listening to the computers that use them

    • OTHER thinking

      I also wrote these, among other things:

      A metadata-based architecture for user-centered data accountability

      Electronic Markets: The International Journal of Networked Business, February 2015

       

      The Rise of Social Machines

      Atlantic Council, January 2015

       

      Rebalancing Socioeconomic Asymmetry in a Data-Driven Economy

      World Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report 2014

       

      Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2014: Social Networks and Social Machines, Surveillance and Empowerment

      IOS Press, November 2014
       

      Technology Policy in an Age of Unknowledge

      Atlantic Council, January 2014

       

      Hacking the Internet of Everything

      Scientific American, August 2013

       

      In the Shadow of Forster's Room

      Atlantic Council, August 2013

       

      'Who Owns the Future?' Why Jaron Lanier Remains a Digital Optimist

      [email protected], August 2013

    • COnnect

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      Art: Andy Goldsworthy

    © Peter Haynes, 2020

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