January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016
Introduction
Gideon Rose
Last Updated 01/01/16
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Malcolm Gladwell and Clay Shirky on the relationship between social media and protests; Mariana Mazzucato on the innovative state; Kofi Annan and Sam Dryden on food and the transformation of Africa; and much more.
21 Articles
21 Articles
Table of Contents
November/December 2012
November/December 2012
How to Make Almost Anything
The Digital Fabrication Revolution
Neil Gershenfeld
March/April 2014
March/April 2014
As Objects Go Online
The Promise (and Pitfalls) of the Internet of Things
Neil Gershenfeld and JP Vasseur
May/June 2013
May/June 2013
The Rise of Big Data
How It's Changing the Way We Think About the World
Kenneth Neil Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger
March/April 2014
March/April 2014
The Mobile-Finance Revolution
How Cell Phones Can Spur Development
Jake Kendall and Rodger Voorhies
November/December 2013
November/December 2013
Biology's Brave New World
The Promise and Perils of the Synbio Revolution
Laurie Garrett
July/August 2015
July/August 2015
The Robots Are Coming
How Technological Breakthroughs Will Transform Everyday Life
Daniela Rus
July/August 2014
July/August 2014
New World Order
Labor, Capital, and Ideas in the Power Law Economy
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, and Michael Spence
July/August 2015
July/August 2015
Will Humans Go the Way of Horses?
Labor in the Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Same as It Ever Was
Why the Techno-optimists Are Wrong
Martin Wolf
October 31, 2014
October 31, 2014
The Future of Cities
The Internet of Everything will Change How We Live
John Chambers and Wim Elfrink
July/August 2015
July/August 2015
The Coming Robot Dystopia
All Too Inhuman
Illah Reza Nourbakhsh
January/February 2011
January/February 2011
The Political Power of Social Media
Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change
Clay Shirky
March/April 2011
March/April 2011
From Innovation to Revolution
Do Social Media Make Protests Possible?
Malcolm Gladwell and Clay Shirky
July/August 2015
July/August 2015
The Next
Safety Net
Social Policy for a Digital Age
Nicolas Colin and Bruno Palier
August 12, 2015
August 12, 2015
The Moral Code
How To Teach Robots Right and Wrong
Nayef Al-Rodhan
March/April 2014
March/April 2014
Privacy Pragmatism
Focus on Data Use, Not Data Collection
Craig Mundie
January/February 2015
January/February 2015
The Power of Market Creation
How Innovation Can Spur Development
Bryan C. Mezue, Clayton M. Christensen, and Derek van Bever
January/February 2015
January/February 2015
The Innovative State
Governments Should Make Markets, Not Just Fix Them
Mariana Mazzucato
November/December 2015
November/December 2015
Food and the Transformation of Africa
Getting Smallholders Connected
Kofi Annan and Sam Dryden
