Technology Income Inequality, Catastrophe Predictions, and Thomas Piketty Arnie Calica Income inequality in the United States is an important issue in the debates for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Environment The Short-Term Temptations and Long-Term Risks of Environmental Catastrophism Gary E. Marchant and Karen Bradshaw The human psyche seems particularly prone to catastrophic and apocalyptic scenarios.
Technology The Future: Innovation and Jobs Yvonne A. Stevens In recent years, economists, academics, writers, journalists, and others have blamed technology and the speed of technological innovation, in whole or in part, for unprecedented job losses, projected future job losses, and corresponding unemployment problems.
Technology In an Age of Civilizational Conflict Braden R. Allenby There are few institutions that have been as consistent throughout human history as violent conflict: violence among families, clans, and tribes; violence among institutions, interest groups and classes; violence among kingdoms and states; violence among religions and cultures.
Technology Prevailing Over Our Dystopias: An Afterword Joel Garreau Lord Martin Rees is the “astronomer royal” of the United Kingdom—sort of a poet laureate to the stars.
Biotechnology Dr. Frankenstein, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love CRISPR-Cas9 Adam J. Gross The CRISPR-Cas9 genetic modification technology is a comparatively inexpensive, widely available, and easy to use site-specific DNA cleaving—cutting—technology used to modify DNA.
