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The innovation issue

July 2020

Technology has let us down. Here’s how to make it work for us again… and 35 young innovators leading the charge

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Letter from the editor

A tale of two startups

Features

Categorized in Tech policy
Why tech didn’t save us from covid-19
America's paralysis reveals a deep and fundamental flaw in how the nation thinks about innovation.
Categorized in
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 Tech policy
Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way.
Black Americans have seen technology used to target them again and again. Stopping it means looking at the problem differently.
Categorized in Silicon Valley
Toronto would like to be seen as the nice person’s Silicon Valley, if that’s not too much trouble
The Canadian tech hub is selling itself as an antidote to the tech industry’s worst impulses. But what does that entail?
Categorized in Silicon Valley
Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need
The funding model that made Silicon Valley a global hub excels at creating a certain kind of innovation—but the pandemic has exposed its broader failures.
Categorized in Artificial intelligence
Covid-19 could accelerate the robot takeover of human jobs
Machines were supposed to take over tasks too dangerous for humans. Now humans are the danger, and robots might be the solution.

Also in this issue
- Six tales from the trenches of running a startup
  We asked some previous winners of our 35 Innovators Under 35 award what they’ve learned about innovation since they won.
  Categorized in Silicon Valley
- What the 1930s can teach us about dealing with Big Tech today
  The Great Depression offers lessons for how to give ordinary people a say in the economic recovery from covid-19.
  Categorized in Tech policy
- How the US lost its way on innovation
  Over decades the country has progressively defunded the kind of research that made its tech industry great
  Categorized in Silicon Valley
- Algostory 1.7: “Krishna and Arjuna”
  A short fiction story written with the help of an algorithm
  Categorized in Artificial intelligence
- I used an algorithm to help me write a story. Here’s what I learned.
  An insight into the way machines make meaning.
  Categorized in Artificial intelligence
- From the archives: The innovator’s dilemma through the ages
  Our needs for long-term solutions are often at odds with the short-term pressure for profits, but sometimes that tension is a good thing.
  Categorized in Silicon Valley

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