Bernhard Warner is a former senior writer at 
Fortune. He wrote the weekly 
Breakthrough column, a probing look at the latest innovations addressing the world’s biggest challenges. He also served as co-chair of 
Fortune’s 
Global Forum. For several years, he served as a 
Reuters correspondent covering the Internet, technology, and media industries, and he has written for the 
Guardian’s Long Read, 
The Atlantic, 
Slate’s The Big Money, Bloomberg
 Businessweek, 
Wired, and 
Inc. He also co-produced two short, award-winning documentary films—one of which, 
Maisha, about child miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was screened at the United Nations. Earlier in his career, he chronicled the rise and fall of the first dotcom boom for 
Adweek and the
 Industry Standard. He is based in Rome.