What's to come?

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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.
  Brad Allenby Sept. 13, 2011
  
• Can Brain Research Keep Us Safe? Post-9/11 "neurosecurity" research is very cool, but it holds more promise than results.
  Jonathan D. Moreno Sept. 8, 2011
  
• Salvaging Space Cleaning up low-Earth-orbit debris might lead to new space technologies.
  Konstantin  Kakaes  Sept. 1, 2011
  
• The Leaky Nature of Online Privacy Network analysis can uncover your personal details even if you choose to hide them.
  Kevin Gold Aug. 29, 2011
  
• In Defense of the Internet Craftsman Universal broadband should be about control, not just access.
  James Losey 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.
  Jeffrey Carr Aug. 12, 2011
  
• Think Faster A review of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes-style research into brain boosting.
  Torie Bosch Aug. 4, 2011
  
• mHealth Care Crisis Should the FDA regulate smartphone medical apps?
  Torie Bosch Aug. 2, 2011
  
• The World's Deadliest Distinction Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older?
  Will Oremus July 19, 2011
  
• Springtime for Twitter Is the Internet driving the revolutions of the Arab Spring?
  William Saletan July 18, 2011
  
• Take That, Tehran The U.S. is focusing on the wrong technologies in its fight to bring open information to Iran.
  Omid Memarian July 12, 2011
  
• Tahrir Square Was a Foreseeable Surprise Tracing the history of Egyptian online activism.
  Merlyna Lim July 11, 2011
  
• Life Is a Self-Driving Highway Will Americans be able to adapt to the autonomous car?
  Adam Waytz July 7, 2011
  
• The Robots Are Coming We need to move from robot-apocalypse jokes to serious discussions about the emerging technology.
  Torie Bosch 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.
  Henry Jackelen 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.
  Andrew Hessel Feb. 3, 2011
  
• Space Stasis What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation.
  Neal Stephenson Feb. 2, 2011
  
• The Sins of Syn Bio How synthetic biology will bring us cheaper plastics by ruining the poorest nations on Earth.
  Jim Thomas Feb. 2, 2011
  
• The Myth of Government Neutrality The subtle, obscure, and legalistic ways the government regulates the Internet.
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 1, 2011
  
• Faking Organisms How can we govern the garage biologists who are tinkering with life?
  William Saletan Feb. 1, 2011
  
• Save the Internet by Doing Nothing Governments should butt out of Internet regulation, because the Internet will civilize itself.
  Larry Downes Jan. 28, 2011
  
• The Purpose of Science Fiction How it teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology.
  Robert J. Sawyer Jan. 27, 2011