Join us for a night about weather science, spanning today's forecast to how AI is impacting future predictions.
Doors open at 7:00PM. Event is 21+ with limited capacity. Free event - RSVP here!
The Weather Machine
Andrew Blum
Author and Journalist
Andrew Blum is a journalist and author, writing about infrastructure and technology. He is the author of two books— The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast (Ecco, 2019), and Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Ecco, 2012) — and is at work on a third, about the infrastructure of the energy transition (Norton, 2028). His magazine writing has appeared in dozens of publications over three decades, including Wired, Time, MIT Technology Review, Popular Science, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. He has degrees in literature from Amherst College and human geography from the University of Toronto, and lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
The weather forecast relies on a vast infrastructure of balloons, satellites, supercomputers, and global diplomacy. When Andrew Blum published The Weather Machine in 2019, the forecast was a triumph of public science. Now it is being remade for the AI era, as private observation companies and new forecast models upend a long tradition of international collaboration. Who will pay for the ever-better forecast, and who will be left out?