Jon Gertner

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Fast Company

Inside Obama’s Stealth Startup

President Obama has quietly recruited top tech talent from the likes of Google and Facebook. Their mission: to reboot how government works.

Fast Company

Leslie Dewan

For throwing salt on traditionally nuclear technology.

Fast Company

NASA’s Chief Scientist On The Possibility Of Finding Alien Life: “It’s Going To Be Mind-blowing”

Ellen Stofan explains how the space agency is thinking big as it looks to the future.

Fast Company

Klaus Lackner Is Pulling CO2 Out of Thin Air

Stopping global warming has long been an environmentalist’s fantasy. Not anymore.

Fast Company

Cree

For its speed and ingenuity in becoming the leading consumer LED brand in the U.S.

Fast Company

What’s Lurking In Your Microbiome? Possibly, A Cure For Disease

Startups are harnessing the trillions of bacteria inside us to eradicate diabetes, obesity, arthritis, and more.

Fast Company

We’re Running Out Of Water

It’s a global problem–but the greatest minds in Silicon Valley don’t seem interested in fixing the problem. Why not?

Fast Company

This Home Makes All Its Own Energy. Will We All Soon Be Living In One?

It’s a grand experiment in “net zero” living–and it’s working. But we can’t move in just yet.

Fast Company

Inside Toyota And Tesla’s Duel to Fuel the Cars of the Future

The collapse of the automakers’ partnership points to the next crucial car-world debate: batteries vs. hydrogen fuel cells.

Fast Company

Behind GE’s Vision For The Industrial Internet Of Things

CEO Jeff Immelt is pushing to turn jet engines, locomotives, and other giant machines into data-spewing computers.

Ideas

How To Get People To Wear More Sunscreen: Make It Free

Ideas

Is Seattle’s Rising Minimum Wage Helping Or Hurting Low-Wage Workers?

Ideas

How Trump Has Changed How We’re Giving To Charity

Entertainment

This Unapologetically Queer Japanese Film From 1969 Is Required Viewing

Entertainment

Here’s Every Single In-Joke From The Title Sequences Of “Silicon Valley”

Entertainment

SZA Goes On “The Pharcyde,” Haim Does A One-Take: This Week In Music

Co.Design

Product

This Drone Responds To Your Emotions Just Like A Good Pet

Graphics

A Design Student’s Brilliant, Terrifying Thesis On Trump’s Tweets

Product

Baby Boomers Are Aging–And Designers Need To Adapt

Fast Company

Entertainment

This Unapologetically Queer Japanese Film From 1969 Is Required Viewing

Leadership

Switching Up My Morning Routine Helps Me Crush Procrastination By Lunchtime

Leadership

Jon Gertner

Stories by Jon GertnerRSS

Inside Obama’s Stealth Startup

President Obama has quietly recruited top tech talent from the likes of Google and Facebook. Their mission: to reboot how government works.

Leslie Dewan

For throwing salt on traditionally nuclear technology.

NASA’s Chief Scientist On The Possibility Of Finding Alien Life: “It’s Going To Be Mind-blowing”

Ellen Stofan explains how the space agency is thinking big as it looks to the future.

Klaus Lackner Is Pulling CO2 Out of Thin Air

Stopping global warming has long been an environmentalist’s fantasy. Not anymore.

Cree

For its speed and ingenuity in becoming the leading consumer LED brand in the U.S.

What’s Lurking In Your Microbiome? Possibly, A Cure For Disease

Startups are harnessing the trillions of bacteria inside us to eradicate diabetes, obesity, arthritis, and more.

We’re Running Out Of Water

It’s a global problem–but the greatest minds in Silicon Valley don’t seem interested in fixing the problem. Why not?

This Home Makes All Its Own Energy. Will We All Soon Be Living In One?

It’s a grand experiment in “net zero” living–and it’s working. But we can’t move in just yet.

Inside Toyota And Tesla’s Duel to Fuel the Cars of the Future

The collapse of the automakers’ partnership points to the next crucial car-world debate: batteries vs. hydrogen fuel cells.

Behind GE’s Vision For The Industrial Internet Of Things

CEO Jeff Immelt is pushing to turn jet engines, locomotives, and other giant machines into data-spewing computers.

Ideas

How To Get People To Wear More Sunscreen: Make It Free

Is Seattle’s Rising Minimum Wage Helping Or Hurting Low-Wage Workers?

How Trump Has Changed How We’re Giving To Charity

Entertainment

This Unapologetically Queer Japanese Film From 1969 Is Required Viewing

Here’s Every Single In-Joke From The Title Sequences Of “Silicon Valley”

SZA Goes On “The Pharcyde,” Haim Does A One-Take: This Week In Music

Co.Design

This Drone Responds To Your Emotions Just Like A Good Pet

A Design Student’s Brilliant, Terrifying Thesis On Trump’s Tweets

Baby Boomers Are Aging–And Designers Need To Adapt

Fast Company

This Unapologetically Queer Japanese Film From 1969 Is Required Viewing

Switching Up My Morning Routine Helps Me Crush Procrastination By Lunchtime

Nasdaq’s Trekkie CEO Wants To Modernize Wall Street With Blockchain, VR, And Anything Else That Sticks