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Free Speech in the Era of Its Technological Amplification

March 2013

A letter to John Stuart Mill about the limits of what may be shown or said on the Web.

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On Innovation and Disruption

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Categorized in Climate change
A Cheap and Easy Plan to Stop Global Warming
Intentionally engineering Earth’s atmosphere to offset rising temperatures could be far more doable than you imagine, says David Keith. But is it a good idea?
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50 Disruptive Companies 2013
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Steve Ballmer on the Strategy Behind His Strangest Product
Microsoft’s CEO explains what Windows 8 means to his company.
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Inside China’s Genome Factory
Sequencing a complete human genome may soon cost less than an iPhone. Will BGI-Shenzhen decode yours?
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Xerox’s CEO Wants to Shake Up the Services Market
Ursula Burns says Xerox can outfox low-cost outsourcing companies with better technology.
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Apple’s Next Innovation: TV
Television viewers fumble with awkward remote controls and crave a richer array of on-demand programming. It’s time for Apple to step in and disrupt the TV business.
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Ambri’s Better Grid Battery
A tiny startup called Ambri wants to transform our energy system with massive liquid-metal batteries.
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How Nest’s Control Freaks Reinvented the Thermostat
Two men who created the iPod and iPhone founded Nest and injected new technology into the humble thermostat. Now they have their sights on the rest of your house.
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Pinterest’s Founder: Algorithms Don’t Know What You Want
CEO Ben Silbermann says Pinterest is built on the idea that crowds of people are best at finding content that consumers care about.

Also in this issue
- Feedback
  Comments and letters from readers on our January/February 2013 issue.
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- The Innovation Efficiency Index
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- Windows 8: Design over Usability
  Windows 8 gets a lot right, but Microsoft’s determination to offer computer and mobile users the same interface makes the operating system somewhat weird.
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- The Problem with Our Data Obsession
  The quest to gather ever more information can make us value the wrong things and grow overconfident about what we know.
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- How to Build a Nanotube Computer
  IBM creates a new way to make faster and smaller transistors.
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- Automation Sets Us Free
  A 1929 essay by Arthur D. Little argued that workers and consumers would benefit from more mass production, not less.
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