Interesting fact of the century: We used to dream more than we could do; today we can do more than we dream of. I believe that if we don't get our dreaming up to speed, we won't be able to do the things we need to do if we want to survive and thrive.
As I'm fond of both surviving and thriving, I'm deeply interested in exploring the gap between the plausible and the possible, the problems and solutions that appear once you realize that, yes, the world is that weird, and we are going to have to find a way to deal with (and take advantage of) it.
As part of that, I'm Editor-in-Chief of Frontier Economy, an online magazine that discusses the applied innovations happening right now, and those that we need to come up with any moment now.
I'm also Assistant Director at both the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and Humanity+, two organizations dedicated to the ethics, politics, and possible consequences of some of the most interesting changes taking place right now: those with the potential of radically affecting our bodies and minds.
Non-coincidentally, I love reading and writing science fiction. I post my (very, very short) stories on Hectowords. But I always keep in mind the main difference between fiction and reality: fiction has to look plausible. Reality is under no such constraint.