Oliver Morton is a senior editor at The Economist who in his own writing concentrates on scientific and technological change and their effects. He is the author of four acclaimed books on the history, understanding and imagining of planetary processes: Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World (2002); Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (2007); The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World (2015); and The Moon: A History for the Future (2019). Asteroid 10716 Olivermorton is named after him. (this is updated bio 30.06)
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