America’s technological leadership is at stake in this election
The US presidential election next Tuesday will shape the world for years, if not decades, to come. Not only because Joe Biden and Donald Trump have radically different ideas about immigration, health...
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Are you ready to be a techno-optimist again?
Twenty years ago, MIT Technology Review picked 10 emerging areas of innovation that we promised would “change the world.” It was a time of peak techno-optimism. Yes, the dot-com boom was in the midst...
View ArticleAn uber-optimistic view of the future
Maybe it never truly went away. But these days techno-optimism—the kind that raged in the late 1990s and early 2000s and then dried up and turned to pessimism during the last decade—is once again...
View ArticleHow to solve AI’s inequality problem
The economy is being transformed by digital technologies, especially in artificial intelligence, that are rapidly changing how we live and work. But this transformation poses a troubling puzzle: these...
View Article2022’s seismic shift in US tech policy will change how we innovate
This essay is part of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023. Explore the full list here. It was the perfect political photo op. The occasion was the September groundbreaking for...
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ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that...
Whether it’s based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, an artificial-intelligence gold rush has started over the last several months to mine the anticipated business opportunities from generative AI...
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The $100 billion bet that a postindustrial US city can reinvent itself as a...
For now, the thousand acres that may well portend a more prosperous future for Syracuse, New York, and the surrounding towns are just a nondescript expanse of scrub, overgrown grass, and trees. But on...
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Climate tech is back—and this time, it can’t afford to fail
Lost in a stupor of déjà vu, I rang the intercom buzzer a second time. I had the odd sensation of being unstuck in time. The headquarters of this solar startup looked strangely similar to its previous...
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Six takeaways from a climate-tech boom
The surge of climate-tech startups seeking to reinvent clean energy and transform huge industrial markets is fueling optimism about our prospects for addressing climate change. Tens of billions are...
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People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.
MIT Technology Review is celebrating our 125th anniversary with an online series that draws lessons for the future from our past coverage of technology. It was 1938, and the pain of the Great...
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