Technological innovations

The Silenced Majority

By Rana Dasgupta,

Can America still afford democracy?

To Infinity and Beyond

By Maël Renouard, Translated by Peter Behrman de Sinéty,

From Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet, a memoir, which will be published in November by New York Review Books. Translated from the French by Peter…

From research topics funded by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency between 2007 and 2012. The list was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists. BiomaterialsMetamaterialsFusion propulsion Read More

Destroyer of Worlds

By Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

Face the Nation

From news reports in the past year of facial-recognition technologies that have been implemented in China. Read More

An Energy-Generating Beaver Dam

By Jacques Leslie,

Thinking small to end the era of big dams

Crossing the Valley

By Walter Kirn,

Like campaigning politicians, pornographers — who are also in the business of galvanizing tired nervous systems — face one problem that never goes away: cutting through the numbness caused by…

Packing Heat

By Tomas van Houtryve,

A Radioactive Money Pit

By Sajan Saini, M.V. Ramana,

The hidden risks of small-scale nuclear reactors

The Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

By Jeff Madrick,

For as long as there have been machines, there have been worries about their power to destroy jobs. The Luddites — early-nineteenth-century artisans who bitterly resisted the new textile machinery…

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