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- Will Robots Steal Your Job? Join Slate technology columnist Farhad Manjoo at the New America Foundation for an event about machines as doctors, lawyers, and creators.
Sept. 20, 2011 - Debating Extreme Human Enhancement There are some places our "wetware" bodies just can't go.
Sept. 13, 2011 - Can Brain Research Keep Us Safe? Post-9/11 "neurosecurity" research is very cool, but it holds more promise than results.
Sept. 8, 2011 - Salvaging Space Cleaning up low-Earth-orbit debris might lead to new space technologies.
Sept. 1, 2011 - The Leaky Nature of Online Privacy Network analysis can uncover your personal details even if you choose to hide them.
Aug. 29, 2011 - In Defense of the Internet Craftsman Universal broadband should be about control, not just access.
Aug. 15, 2011 - Is It Cyberwar? Vote on which scenarios you think qualify as acts of war.
Aug. 12, 2011 - What Is Cyberwar? The defense community can't figure out how to define it.
Aug. 12, 2011 - Think Faster A review of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes-style research into brain boosting.
Aug. 4, 2011 - mHealth Care Crisis Should the FDA regulate smartphone medical apps?
Aug. 2, 2011 - The World's Deadliest Distinction Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older?
July 19, 2011 - Springtime for Twitter Is the Internet driving the revolutions of the Arab Spring?
July 18, 2011 - Take That, Tehran The U.S. is focusing on the wrong technologies in its fight to bring open information to Iran.
July 12, 2011 - Tahrir Square Was a Foreseeable Surprise Tracing the history of Egyptian online activism.
July 11, 2011 - Life Is a Self-Driving Highway Will Americans be able to adapt to the autonomous car?
July 7, 2011 - The Robots Are Coming We need to move from robot-apocalypse jokes to serious discussions about the emerging technology.
July 1, 2011 - Money to the People Delivering foreign aid directly to the world's poor by electronic transfer would cut waste and reduce corruption.
Feb. 25, 2011 - When Hollywood Tackles Science How movies map scenarios from the frontiers of science.
Feb. 14, 2011 - Don't Be Afraid of the Dragon Fears of synthetic biology are overblown.
Feb. 3, 2011 - Space Stasis What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation.
Feb. 2, 2011 - The Sins of Syn Bio How synthetic biology will bring us cheaper plastics by ruining the poorest nations on Earth.
Feb. 2, 2011 - The Myth of Government Neutrality The subtle, obscure, and legalistic ways the government regulates the Internet.
Feb. 1, 2011 - Faking Organisms How can we govern the garage biologists who are tinkering with life?
Feb. 1, 2011 - Save the Internet by Doing Nothing Governments should butt out of Internet regulation, because the Internet will civilize itself.
Jan. 28, 2011 - The Purpose of Science Fiction How it teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology.
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