Business Impact Science vs. the state: a family saga at the Caltech of China Three generations of personal and political history show the tensions between the Communist Party’s need for knowledge and its need for ideological control. by Yangyang Cheng 2018-12-19T07:00:00-05:00
Climate Change Brazil’s presidential election could mean billions of tons of additional greenhouse gases Policies leading to more destruction of the Amazon and Cerrado would have a huge impact on climate change. by James Temple 2018-11-14T07:00:00-05:00
Business Impact Kenya’s technology evolved. Its political problems stayed the same. Long before the internet, hate speech flourished in echo chambers of a different kind. by Nanjala Nyabola 2018-08-22T07:00:00-04:00
Tech Policy This is what filter bubbles actually look like Maps of Twitter activity show how political polarization manifests online and why divides are so hard to bridge. by John Kelly and Camille François 2018-08-22T07:00:00-04:00
Tech Policy Why the pessimists are winning, for now The editor’s letter in the 2018 politics issue of MIT Technology Review. by Gideon Lichfield 2018-08-22T07:00:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence Fake America great again Inside the race to catch the worryingly real fakes that can be made using artificial intelligence. by Will Knight 2018-08-17T07:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines The “neuropolitics” consultants who hack voters’ brains These experts say they can divine political preferences you can’t express from signals you don’t know you’re producing. by Elizabeth Svoboda 2018-08-16T07:00:00-04:00
Silicon Valley Gary Reback: Technology’s trustbuster Big-money politics is making it harder than ever to tame Big Tech. by Martin Giles 2018-06-27T08:30:00-04:00
Tech Policy The Man with a Plan to Upgrade the Democrats Raffi Krikorian, the CTO of the Democratic National Committee, is out to beat hackers—and the Republicans. by Martin Giles 2017-12-08T00:00:00-05:00
Tech Policy The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Democracy A new form of online survey uses crowdsourcing and data visualization to reveal the hidden nuances in partisan debates. by Tom Simonite 2017-06-02T12:15:00-04:00