Freelance
Jon Turney is a British science writer, editor and reviewer. He co-authored the book Fifty Years at the Heart of Health (2012) with Julie Clayton. His latest book is I, Superorganism (2015). He lives in Bristol.
essayIllness and disease
Beyond cell wars
It is time to disarm the military metaphor of the body as a battleground, with immune cells as the first line of defence
Jon Turney
essayAutomation and robotics
How to design the future
As technological choices become ever more complex, design fiction, not science, hints at the future we actually want
Jon Turney
essayComputing and artificial intelligence
A model world
In economics, climate science and public health, computer models help us decide how to act. But can we trust them?
Jon Turney