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By Daniel Sarewitz, This is the first in a series on big data and its impact on society from CSPO co-director Daniel Sarewitz. Check back in 2013 for his next post.  Advances in real-time data acquisition, processing, and display technologies…

A professor of mine when I was in graduate school commented that one could more openly and objectively discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict in a café in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv than in the United States.  Teaching courses on the Middle…

By Jamey Wetmore, We’re becoming a bit more Amish I know. You own a slim titanium ultrabook computer, an eye popping LCD 3D HD television, an iPhone with a custom designed carbon fibre cover, and a sports car with 360…

By David Guston and Ed Finn, This article also appears as part of Slate.com’s Future Tense series. ASU is a partner in Future Tense with Slate and the New America Foundation. Bond is back. But you can forget about stale…

By Jathan Sadowski Innovation is something everybody calls for: almost every company wants to be known for it, and we praise people for becoming innovators at a young age. But is all innovation a good thing? Not necessarily. Implicit in…

Designing and launching a spacecraft the outer reaches of our solar system requires technological prowess, innovative problem solving, and – in the case of NASA’s New Horizons unmanned probe in June 2012 – bake sales and car washes. Behind these…

By Clark Miller As I write, Nate Silver has updated his 538 model to show a 92.2% probability that Obama wins easily. The reason? His model calculation concludes that Obama will win Ohio with a 3.8% margin, Nevada by 4.7%,…

By Clark A. Miller This article also appears on Slate.  Arizona State University is a partner in Future Tense with Slate and the New America Foundation. All storms tell stories. Some are inevitably about destruction. Others are about heroism and…