Patrick Tucker is the technology reporter/editor with Defense One and deputy editor for the Futurist magazine. He has written on the topics of data, complexity, AI and AGI, information technology, cybernetics, nanotechnology, genetics and genetic ethics, invention, climate change and climate change mitigation, demography, and neuroscience and his writing has appeared in various publications and on many sites, including THE FUTURIST magazine, Slate, The Sun (U.K.) MIT Technology Review, The Wilson Quarterly, The Johns Hopkins Magazine, Encyclopedia Britannica online, the Utne Reader, and the Discovery Channel. His first book, The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?, is due out from Current, a Penguin imprint, in March of 2014.
As a science journalist and editor, he's interviewed such technologists, policy experts, and visionaries as MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks, Google research director Peter Norvig, military strategist Edward N. Luttwak, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, former CIA director Robert James Woolsey, tech guru Tim O'Reilly, environmentalist Lester Brown, flying-car-creator Paul Moller, and inventor Ray Kurzweil on various topics related to technology and innovation.
His writing has been translated into Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
He's been quoted in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The Christian Science Monitor, and Voice of America, and has been a guest on such networks and programs as BBC World Service, WTOP in Washington, Russia Today, CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, Fox and Friends, and Science Fantastic with Michio Kaku.