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The Change issue

July/August 2021

Technology is rapidly changing how we live and work. Our annual list of Innovators Under 35 highlights the most promising young people working in technology today and provides a glimpse of the future they're helping create.

Letter from the editor

The power of us

Sophy Hollington

Features

Categorized in 35 Innovators Under 35
35 Innovators Under 35
Meet this year's 35 brilliant young entrepreneurs, inventors, visionaries, humanitarians and pioneers who are working to make the world a better place.
Categorized in Computing
The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore’s Law
A shortage of microchips threatens to slow the decades of innovation fueled by the promise of ever faster, cheaper computing power.
Categorized in Artificial intelligence
Inside the fight to reclaim AI from Big Tech’s control
For years, Big Tech has set the global AI research agenda. Now, groups like Black in AI and Queer in AI are upending the field’s power dynamics to build AI that serves people.
Categorized in Humans and technology
China’s path to modernization has, for centuries, gone through my hometown

Generations of Chinese intellectuals sought Western science and technology to build a strong homeland. In a new era of US-China rivalry, has their dream come true?
Categorized in Climate change
This photographer-scientists collaboration shows the speed of climate change
Ian van Coller had scientists annotate his photos to show how climate change is warping geological time around the world.

Also in this issue
- What does breaking up Big Tech really mean?
  Trustbusting sentiment is growing among many critics of today’s mammoth tech companies, but it’s not obvious what can be done to cut them down to size.
  
  Categorized in Tech policy
- Online activism: a year in review
  Social movements looked different during the pandemic. Here’s how four activists kept the pressure on.
  
  Categorized in Tech policy
- Tech’s new labor movement is harnessing lessons learned a century ago
  Workers across the tech industry are trying out a variety of techniques to pressure their employers to make change. Some may fail, but the movement won’t.
  
  Categorized in Silicon Valley
- Why Generation Z falls for online misinformation
  We can all learn from how today’s young people evaluate truth online.
  
  Categorized in Opinion
- Zoox CEO Aicha Evans on how autonomy will change our habits
  And what we must get right.
  
  Categorized in Artificial intelligence
- Why it’s so hard to make tech more diverse
  Tracy Chou, a member of our 2017 Innovators Under 35 list, reflects on the obstacles she’s encountered as a tech entrepreneur.
  
  Categorized in Tech policy
- Why cheaper solar photovoltaics are key to addressing climate change
  The rapidly dropping price of solar power has transformed how we think about clean energy. But it needs to still get a whole lot cheaper.
  
  Categorized in Climate change
- The dangerous appeal of technology-driven futures
  Technology doesn’t rule us. We direct it, but often by inaction.
  
  Categorized in Opinion
- Why prisoners like me need internet access
  I haven’t been online in almost two decades. Being able to would help me prepare for life after my release.
  
  Categorized in Opinion
- How the next generation is reshaping political discourse
  The rise of social media and being always online is changing the nature of civic engagement.
  
  Categorized in Opinion
- The change chronicles
  Throughout the decades, change has proved difficult—whether you’re trying to make it happen or just reacting to it.
  
  Categorized in

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