Jon Turney

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.

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Written by Jon Turney

Illustration of a yellow plane flying behind a large, exaggerated bee with missile-like projectiles in the foreground on a blue background.

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Illness 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

Artwork of colourful abstract robots around a large rock, marked lines on the ground in a circular pattern creating symmetry.

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Automation 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

Map of the United States at night in blue highlighting areas of high activity, with a close-up inset of a region in the bottom-left.

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Computing 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