Joel Levy is a writer and journalist specialising in science, nature and technology for younger audiences. His writing explores both mainstream science and weird technology, from chemistry and physics to death-rays and biomimetic robots. After taking degrees in molecular biology and psychology at Warwick and Edinburgh, he has gone on to write books including Really Useful, the science and history of everyday technology; Poison: A Social history, on the science and lore of poisons; Newton's Notebooks, on the life and discoveries of Isaac Newton; Phobiapedia, an encyclopaedia of the things that scare us most; and A Bee in a Cathedral, exploring analogies and thought experiments in science, nature and technology.

Robots and computers: Virtually there, Intelligent machines, Exoskeleton muscle suits, Caring robots, The computer of tomorrow, Teleportation; Shopping and Lifestyles: Future shopping, Retina display, Augmented Reality, Super-computer in your pocket, Smart homes and schools, Intelligent clothing, 3-D printing; Energy, Transport and the Environment: High speed trains, High speed trains, Nuclear fusion, Green Power, World hack, Fuel cells, Artificial plants, Passenger planes and Airships, Flying cars, A new age of sail, Laser-powered lightcraft, Telecommunication; Medicine and bioengineering: Medical nanobots, Prosthetics and enhancements, Bioengineering; Exploration: Private space flight, Space tourism, Asteroid mining, Sunken gold, Future of Inventing.