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A More Perfect Union

January/February 2013

The definitive account of how the Obama campaign used big data to redefine politics.

Letter from the editor

On Politics and Technology

Features

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How Technology Has Restored the Soul of Politics
Longtime political operative Joe Trippi cheers the innovations of Obama 2012, saying they restored the primacy of the individual voter.
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Bono Sings the Praises of Technology
The musician and activist explains how technology provides the means to help us eradicate disease and extreme poverty.
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Dear Mr. President: Time to Deal with Climate Change
In a letter to President Obama, the editors of MIT Technology Review argue that addressing climate change must take top priority in the next four years.
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The Machine That Will Help End TB
Nearly 1.5 million people die from tuberculosis every year, even though most cases can be cured with routine antibiotic treatments. One country’s fight to get the ancient scourge under control has an unlikely hero: a simple diagnostic test.

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- Why We Have a Right to Consumer Genetics
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- The Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers
  Fans of 3-D printers and digital design tools argue that these technologies will transform the way we make goods. But can the “maker” movement really produce more than iPhone covers and jewelry?
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- The Spectrum Crunch That Wasn’t
  Tiny transmitters, spectrum sharing, and new information- coding technologies promise to keep wireless data capacity increasing for years.
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- Where U.S. R&D Dollars Go
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- The Airplane’s Infancy
  By 1913 we’d learned how to fly. Now came the hard part—designing flying machines that were safe and reliable.
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