Gideon Lichfield, a Data & Society affiliate, is a journalist focusing on the intersection of technology and democracy. He was previously global editorial director of WIRED, editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review, an editor at Quartz, and a foreign correspondent for The Economist in Mexico City, Moscow, and Jerusalem. He was part of Data and Society’s inaugural fellows program in 2014-15, focusing on the use of speculative fiction as a tool for popularizing complex technological and social issues, and edited Make Shift: Dispatches from a Post-Pandemic Future, a short fiction anthology for MIT Press published in 2021.