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The Changing World Order

Drones are the new bombs, code the new currency, chips the new oil, and AI the new everything. Technology has reshaped geopolitics forever and a new world order is being carved in silicon

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Global Development

2.6 billion people don’t use the internet. What’s stopping them?

One-third of the world still isn’t online. Here’s how the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is working to close the digital divide.

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Big Tech

The next big tech trend will start out looking like a toy

In “Read, Write, Own: Building The Next Era of the Internet,” investor Chris Dixon explains why the biggest trends often go overlooked.

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Censorship

Constitutional warning shot for social media “deplatforming” laws

Can the government tell private websites what they have to publish?

Activism

This nonprofit gives bikes and people new life

Working Bikes has spent nearly two decades rescuing bicycles from the waste cycle to give people purpose, access to jobs, and independence.

Transportation

Getting aerial ridesharing off the ground

It’s been the ultimate futuristic dream for decades: flying cars! But now, the future finally has a deadline. At least to start, it will land in the form of a small air taxi operated by Uber, not something you’ll park in your garage.

AI

In the midst of a crisis, Venezuelans are training self-driving cars

Hundreds of thousands of formerly middle class Venezuelans, thrown into poverty by economic collapse, are now sitting at computers as they help train self-driving cars to identify and avoid obstacles.

Global Development

Life jackets are used to create jewelry, opportunity for refugees

Hordes of bright orange lifejackets are strewn across the rocky beaches of the Greek island of Lesbos. Discarded…

Healthcare

Bringing community healthcare to the people

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There is an urgent challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa: people are dying from treatable illnesses like malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea. Now, people are turning to their neighbors for community health care.

Urban Living

The future of micromobility in Africa

In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, improvements to infrastructure shift focus from cars to micromobility. The city’s transportation plan calls for hundreds of kilometers of bike lanes and pedestrian pathways for increased safety.

Disaster Response

Could we end earthquake deaths?

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Thousands die in earthquakes every year – even though we know how to build safely. This engineer is working with people in the most vulnerable places to figure out why.

Organized Crime & Street Gangs in South America

Criminal Justice

Should we legalize gangs?

Gangs are a major cause of violence and organized crime. Here’s why countries should think twice before trying to…

Psychology

This child psychiatrist is saving refugees from trauma

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With the right intervention at the right time, a trauma can be recorded in the memory as non-traumatic and in many cases the devastating effects of PTSD in children refugees can be avoided.

Drones

In the US, rural hospitals are closing. Can medical drones fill this healthcare gap?

“Whether you live in the developed world or the developing world, the further you travel outside of a major city,…

Economics

Angels of debt

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These ex-bill collectors got John Oliver’s attention and started a movement. They’re buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of strangers’ medical debt and erasing it.

Medicine

Macgyver medicine can save lives

The package is simple and dirt-cheap—a plastic bag with a condom, a syringe, a rubber tube, and a card with…

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