
Alexis Madrigal
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Alexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers Silicon Valley’s companies and animating ideas. He created and hosted “Containers,” a documentary podcast about how trade remade the economy, and “Real Future,” a television series about the human side of technology. Madrigal has been editor in chief of Fusion, a staff writer at Wired, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, and an affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society. He’s the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology and is working on a book about global capitalism and the San Francisco Bay.
Previously

2019 Festival
Hyperloop One: The Intersection of Engineering and Design
Video — 48m 44s

2019 Festival
Thinking Machines and the Future of Humanity
Video — 53m 13s

2018 Festival
Myths and Realities of the Next Computing Revolution
Audio — 47m

2018 Festival
Israel’s Next Big Initiative: Breakthroughs in Science and Technology
Audio — 49m

2017 Festival
Deep Dive: Machines and Morality
Video — 1h 20m 54s

2017 Festival
Are We Sure We Want to Let Robots Kill?
Video — 53m 32s