Amit Katwala
Features Editor at WIRED and award winning journalist
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About Amit Katwala
Amit Katwala is an award-winning technology journalist, author and broadcaster. He is currently a Features Editor at WIRED, where he commissions and writes longform narrative stories about science, culture and where they collide. Recent works include stories on a boom in short-sightedness in Taiwan, weather control in the Middle East, and the Enhanced Games, a version of the Olympics where performance-enhancing drugs are allowed. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times, The Independent and many other leading publications.
He co-hosted All Consuming, a BBC Radio 4 show and podcast about the history and science of consumer products, and is the presenter of Superhumans, a WIRED documentary series about the technology pushing human performance to the limit, which involved running 100m on a running track in Seoul, South Korea, while wearing an AI-powered exoskeleton, and getting to grips with having a third thumb.
He is the author of three books. The Athletic Brain, How Neuroscience Is Revolutionising Sport and Can Help You Perform Better, combines insights from leading performance scientists with interviews and behind-the-scenes access to some of the world’s leading athletes, including Lewis Hamilton, Wayne Rooney, Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill. Tremors in the Blood, Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector merges a gripping true crime story set in 1920s San Francisco with the dark history of the polygraph machine, and an exploration of how it is still affecting the justice system today. Quantum Computing, How It Works and Why It Could Change the World offers an accessible look at a potentially transformative technology.
He has appeared on stage as a moderator and speaker at many of the world’s biggest technology conferences including SXSW London, Web Summit, CogX, Slush, DLD and many more, conducting interviews with leading figures from DeepMind, Tencent and other global tech companies. Potential speech topics include artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and the neuroscience behind high performance.
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The quantum apocalypse is coming: here’s how to prepare
One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets. Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the day someone builds a quantum computer that can crack the most widely used forms of encryption. These math problems have kept humanity’s intimate data safe for decades, but on Q-Day, everything could become vulnerable, for everyone: emails, text messages, anonymous posts, location histories, bitcoin wallets, police reports, hospital records, power stations, the entire global financial system.
How to beat a lie detector test
The polygraph machine was invented more than 100 years ago, and today, new forms of lie detection powered by artificial intelligence are sweeping across the world. But does the technology actually work?
