In The News
- in the news | January 29, 2015 | Future Tense
First-Class Flyers Get to Try Virtual Reality, Coach Passengers Stuck in Real Reality
The Australian airline Qantas, in partnership with Samsung Electronics Australia, just announced that it will offer virtual-reality technology on s... - in the news | January 27, 2015 | Future Tense
Good News: Replicas of 16th-Century Sculptures Are Not Off-Limits for 3-D Printers
Despite our modern aversion to “copying,” the act of reproducing sculpture is nothing new. Museums have been created high-quality casts of their sc... - in the news | January 27, 2015 | Future Tense
How Technology Is Changing the Family Tree: A Future Tense Event Recap
At a Future Tense event in New York City last week, Jacobs, along with the author Maud Newton; Chris Whitten, the CEO of the collaborative family h... - in the news | January 14, 2015 | Future Tense
Too Hot to Connect
Are our Internet providers putting sufficient effort into network resiliency in the face of climate change? Comcast could not comment and Verizon d... - in the news | December 17, 2014 | Future Tense
SA New Surveillance Blimp Takes to the Skies Over Maryland
The Army has been exploring the use of airships in warzones for a number of years. But the Baltimore blimps’ 24/7 radar mean that they’re technical... - in the news | December 03, 2014 | Future Tense
When Superiority goes wrong: Science ficiton and offset strategies
Peter Warren Singer*The New America Foundation recently hosted a daylong conference, headlined by Neal Stephenson, that sought to re-focus science fiction on providin... -
Relief Official Urges Groups to Step Up Ebola Efforts | New York Times
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is “a complete disaster,” and health agencies do not yet grasp its scope, the president of the relief group Docto... -
Tracing Ebola’s Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old | New York Times
Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers suspect, was a 2-year-old boy who died on Dec. 6, just a few days after falling ill in a village in... -
"Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth" | Foreign Policy
As Washington awaits the release of the highly classified probe into the CIA's torture program, John Brennan's integrity is being questioned just w... -
You Should Ditch Work to Go Watch Soccer, Say Productivity Experts | New York Magazine
New AmericaChristine Rosen, a fellow at the New America Foundation who studies our interactions with technology, pointed to the perils of multitasking. That i... -
The Jetson Fallacy
When envisioning a gleaming, medically enhanced future in which things like implant technology, super-personalized medicine, and organ regeneration...