Features

• Categorized in Tech policy

  How the truth was murdered

  Pandemic, protest, and a precarious election have created an overwhelming flood of disinformation. It didn’t have to be this way.
• Categorized in Tech policy

  Capitalism is in crisis. To save it, we need to rethink economic growth.

  The failure of capitalism to solve our biggest problems is prompting many to question one of its basic precepts.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  Humanity is stuck in short-term thinking. Here’s how we escape.

  Our sense of the future has expanded and contracted over time. But survival means learning new lessons from the shocks society is facing right now.
• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  AI has exacerbated racial bias in housing. Could it help eliminate it instead?

  A discussion on whether machines can ever be fairer than humans.
• Categorized in Climate change

  Inside Singapore’s huge bet on vertical farming

  Covid-19 has made food security a major issue. Now Singapore is investing heavily in high-tech farming as it tries to become more self-sufficient.
• Categorized in Space

  This spacecraft is being readied for a one-way mission to deflect an asteroid

  Can slamming into a space rock at 15,000 miles per hour prevent it from hitting Earth? The DART mission aims to find out.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  Why you don’t really know what you know

  One of the world’s biggest science experiments shows why everybody needs to re-examine what it means to know something.
• Categorized in Climate change

  Finding homes for the waste that will (probably) outlive humanity

  The not-in-my-backyard problem that will go on long after the last backyard is gone.
• Categorized in Climate change

  Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead.

  It’s time to reverse a century of fire-management policy. That will require sweeping regulatory reforms, and tons of money.