191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future
The future grows out of the present, but it manages to consistently surprise us. How can we get better at […]
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Technology
186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity
Advances in technology have gradually been extending the human self beyond its biological extent, as we augment who we are
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171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology
As the holidays approach, we are being reminded of the fragility of the global supply chain. But at the same
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141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
In a world flooded with information, everybody necessarily makes choices about what we pay attention to. This basic fact can
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133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don’t See
It’s a truism that what we see about the world is a small fraction of all that exists. At the
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122 | David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain
Imagine you were locked in a sealed room, with no way to access the outside world but a few screens
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112 | Fyodor Urnov on Gene Editing, CRISPR, and Human Engineering
Not too long ago nobody carried a mobile phone; now almost everybody does. That’s the kind of rate of rapid
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109 | Jason Torchinsky on Our Self-Driving Future
It’s easy to foresee that technological progress will change how we live; it’s much harder to anticipate exactly how. Self-driving
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97 | John Danaher on Our Coming Automated Utopia
Humans build machines, in part, to relieve themselves from the burden of work on difficult, repetitive tasks. And yet, despite
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69 | Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet
Like so many technological innovations, the internet is something that burst on the scene and pervaded human life well before
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