Gordon Feller

Contributor
California
Gordon Feller is Global Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. His nearly 500 magazine articles have been published by World Bank, U.N., World Economic Forum, The Financial Times of London, The Economist, TIME, Fortune, ThomsonReuters and S&P. He’s served as director at Cisco’s global HQ, and before that at IBM, Bechtel and Lockheed. Born in New York, he has Cum Laude degrees from Columbia, which awarded him the Gov. Lehman Fellowship, the Wallach Fellowship and the Dean’s Fellowship. Later, he won the U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield Fellowship and the Japan Foundation’s Prime Minister Abe Fellowship.

LATEST ARTICLES

Column: Building an AI for buildings — “AI shouldn’t optimize a task; it should help build the entire store”
02/16/2026
Column: In AI, local democracy finds an unlikely ally
11/26/2025
Column: What it takes to secure the networks of the automation revolution
06/19/2025
Column: Will seaweed farming be ‘weird and wonderful,’ or a sunk hope?
05/05/2025
Column: Autonomous autos are creating inequality. Can those same digital tools come to the rescue?
03/21/2025
Column: Do engineers or governments create a better future? For AI, the answer is clear
02/14/2025
Column: Officials and governments make promises engineers must keep - here’s why it keeps happening
01/25/2025
A green energy future will cost trillions
04/23/2023
Environmental remediation made simple with real-time data management
01/10/2023
How to resolve the grid’s cyber vulnerabilities
09/13/2022
Re-engineering the Reverse Commute
12/14/2021
Tech that guides you to the perfect parking spot, every time
05/27/2021