Lee Bruno is a author, journalist and strategy analyst. He has reported on business, technology and science over the span of 20 years, writing features and profiles for leading 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.

Let Freedom Ring: Buffalo Soldiers and the Liberty Bell

Winter 2016 issue of The Argonaut -- Journal of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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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:

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

Scientific American

Baffling the Bots: Anti-spammers take on automatons posing as humans

Stanford Alumni Magazine

Smallville: The next big thing is incredibly tiny: the nanoscale world where atoms jump on command