Sally Adee

I’m an independent science and technology writer and editor. From 2010 to 2017 I was a features and news editor at New Scientist magazine, where I commissioned and wrote articles about medical technology, artificial intelligence, and the rest of the Venn diagram where the human mind and body intersects with the machines we create. Before that I was on the microchips beat at IEEE Spectrum magazine in New York. I’ve received awards from the Guild of Health Writers, the National Press Club and BT, and have reported from China, DARPA headquarters, and the Estonian cloud. When my brain acts up, I write speculative fiction. I am also supposedly working on a book. Find me on twitter or LinkedIn, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Sally’s Best of LWON:

The Fraud Finder: A conversation with Elisabeth Bik

Science Metaphors: Hysteresis

Descartes’ robot daughter and the zombie problem

Who’s Afraid of Roko’s Basilisk?

Better Living Through Electrochemistry

Guest Post: When Your Evil Internet Twin is You

Sally’s Speculative fiction:

The Internet Protection Agency, Content Moderation Division

2018: What’s the worst that could happen?

Amazon Alexa fanfic

End stage capitalism in the multiverse

Best of Sally, elsewhere:

The disintegration of the global internet [BBC Future, May 2019]

Behind the scenes at the young blood clinic [New Scientist, September 2017]

9-Volt Nirvana [Radiolab, 2014]

Keeping Up E-ppearances: How to rescue your online reputation [New Scientist, 2011]

The road to hell is paved with corporate wellness: interview with Andre Spicer [New Scientist, 2016]

X-Ray Specs for your Social Life: these glasses see what you’re really feeling

The Hunt for the Kill Switch [IEEE Spectrum, 2008]