Category: Technology Policy

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 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…

By Jameson M. Wetmore, In the spring of 2011, the Emirate of Dubai appeared in headlines as the site of a series of protests. These protests, however, were largely not aimed at the Emirati government. Dubai has become a place…

By Clark A. Miller Big data has become all the rage. The Internet and other technologies of data collection and surveillance have produced massive amounts of information. Big business and the scientific community now want to put that information in…

By Kimberly Elms The recent release of the iPhone5 and the anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death remind me that the legacy of Jobs remains alive and well, both at Apple and in the way Americans think about innovation. While we…