I am a professional freelance journalist and a computer scientist. I’ve written for the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Wired.com, CNET, and others about things like art, epidemiology, and the social impact of technology. I live in Hong Kong.

I’ve traveled to dozens of countries, and reported from some of them. I’ve designed parallel programming systems for Adobe Systems, built machines that shoot people with fire for the award-winning art group Interpretive Arson, and hiked into the Ethiopian highlands and swabbed babies’ eyelids in the name of epidemiology research. I’ve also done time as a technology entrepreneur.

I write (and sometimes sell) short stories . My fiction and personal observations often end up at  Equivocality, where I also administer the yearly Writer’s Travel Scholarhsip. I once wrote an erotic haiku about calculus.

Aside from my professional reporting, I like to think and write about how journalism is going to have to change in response to the internet, and how the internet can be applied towards greater transparency, increased self-government, and ultimately the happiness and amusement of people worldwide. No, really.

You should contact me.

- Jonathan

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