Robert Buderi is the former editor-in-chief of Technology Review and founder of the media company Xconomy. He is the author of Engines of Tomorrow: How the World’s Best Companies Are Using Their Research Labs to Win the Future (Simon and Schuster, 2000), The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 1996), and other books.