Nationality British Role Editor Name Jason Pontin | ||
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Jason pontin editor of technology review technologies that matter
Jason Matthew Daniel Pontin (born 11 May 1967) is an English editor, journalist, and publisher. He was the editor in chief and publisher of MIT Technology Review, a role he held from 2005 to 2017.
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- Jason pontin editor of technology review technologies that matter
- Can we still solve big problems five questions with jason pontin
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Can we still solve big problems five questions with jason pontin
Early life and education
Pontin was born on 11 May 1967 in London, to a British father, Anthony Charles Pontin, and a South African mother, Elaine Howells. He was raised in Northern California but educated in England, at Harrow School and Oxford University.
Career
From 1996 to 2002, Pontin was the editor of Red Herring, a business and technology publication. From 2002 to 2004, he was the editor of The Acumen Journal, a now-defunct magazine he founded about the life sciences.
Pontin is Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a global organisation of technology entrepreneurs. He was hired as the editor of Technology Review in July 2004, and in August 2005 was named publisher. Pontin engaged in what The Boston Globe has described as a "strategic overhaul" of Technology Review, whose goal is to make the magazine into a largely electronic publishing company. In October 2012, he renamed the organisation MIT Technology Review and relaunched it as a "digital-first enterprise". AdWeek commented that "Pontin and MIT Technology Review could set the standard for the transition to a digital future for legacy media."
Pontin has written for national and international magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Believer Magazine, and Wired. In February 2013, he delivered a TED Talk in Long Beach, California, "Can Technology solve our big problems?"
In 2015, under Pontin's leadership, MIT Technology Review produced a four-day conference called Solve that addressed many of the questions raised in his 2013 TED Talk. The 2015 event convened leaders in philanthropy, business, technology, and policy to discuss specific challenges in health care, education, resources, and infrastructure. Pontin's Facebook post musing about a $33 price tag for two cappucinos at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas got picked as the Number of the Day by the San Francisco Chronicle with a theory on why being "Because they're made by genetically engineered dwarves in suits of golden armor and management is passing on the cost to the consumer".
He has engaged in a long-running dispute with Aubrey de Grey regarding de Grey's assertion that it will become possible to reverse many aspects of ageing. Pontin has written that he considers some aspects of this pseudo-science; Aubrey has responded vigorously, and the dispute has persisted for at least a decade.