Lee Bruno is a author, journalist, editor and market researcher. He has reported on business, technology and science over the span of 20 years, writing about innovation and investment trends across biotech, energy and IT in publications, including The Economist, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Red Herring and Wired.
Here are a sample of his writings on technology, business and history.
This Material Will Power the Future — If Somebody Can Profit From It
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/04/tracking-graphenes-move-from-science-project-to-money-machine/
Revolution or evolution?
New materials take time to reach markets, but are a key part of a healthy innovation ecosystem
http://gelookahead.economist.com/revolution-or-evolution-new-materials/
Future Scope: Angela Belcher, MIT: Why advanced materials are drivers for the future economy
http://gelookahead.economist.com/future-scope/angela-belcher/
Let there be smart power: The electrical grid in the US is old, outmoded and wasteful. All this is to change with a massive government investment
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/21/us-electrical-grid
A Low-Energy Water Purifier: A Yale spinoff hopes to solve the big problem with desalination. http://www.technologyreview.com/business/21934
Low-Energy Water Filtration: A new membrane-free water-purification system uses small amounts of energy http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/20754/
US military targets social nets
The social networking landscape could change beyond recognition with technology that maps the skills and needs of users
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/23/social-networks-ilin
Old idea of using bioplastics gets a new lease of life
Researchers are following Henry Ford's footsteps by developing food-based plastics as oil prices rise
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/10/research.waste
Selected articles in Scientific American, Stanford Alumni magazine and Stanford Social Innovation Review:
What Works: Millenials MoveOn to propel young folks to the polls, a political organization mixed Web 2.0 tools with social science savvy
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Baffling the Bots: Anti-spammers take on automatons posing as humans
Scientific American
Smallville: The next big thing is incredibly tiny: the nanoscale world where atoms jump on command
Stanford Alumni Magazine