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The Crowdsourcing of Talent

Scientists are using video games to make major breakthroughs. Are they revolutionizing how we manage labor at the same time?
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What Beer Can Teach Us About Emerging Technologies

The home-brew movement serves as a lesson in DIY innovation.
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The WikiHouse Revolution

Will open-source DIY architecture usher in a new age of architectural innovation?
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Technologically Enhanced Memory

How will life change if we can’t forget anything?
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Mobile Phones Will Not Save the Poorest of the Poor

The cost of cellphone-based services is hurting huge swaths of the developing world.
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What is Future Tense?

Future Tense is a partnership between the New America Foundation, Arizona State University and Slate magazine to explore emerging technologies and their transformative effects on society and public policy. Central to the partnership is a series of events in Washington, D.C., that take in-depth, provocative looks at issues that, while little-understood today, will dramatically reshape the policy debates of the coming decade.

Articles and Op-Eds

How to Avoid the Next Chen Guangcheng Mess
May 03 | The Atlantic
Robert Wright
The Gypsies Are Coming to America
May 03 | Slate
Torie Bosch
A Clunky Cyberstrategy
April 26 | Foreign Affairs
Rebecca MacKinnon
The Not-So-Great Firewall of China
April 17 | Foreign Policy
Rebecca MacKinnon
Is Rachel Dratch Too Ugly For Hollywood?
April 12 | Slate
Torie Bosch
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Events

How to Save America’s Knowledge Enterprise
Monday, May 21, 2012 - 12:00pm | Washington
Feeding the World While the Earth Cooks
Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 9:00am | Washington
Defining Resilience
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 9:30am | Washington
Tinkering With Tomorrow
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 12:15pm | Washington
Fear of the Future Happy Hour
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 6:30pm | Washington
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Future Tense Staff

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Torie Bosch
Editor, Future Tense

As the editor of Future Tense, a joint collaboration between the New America...

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Alicia Fremling
Research Fellow, Media and Communications

Alicia Fremling is a media and communication research fellow at New America...

Joel Garreau
Joel Garreau
Future Tense Fellow

Joel Garreau is the co-director of the Arizona State University – New...

Tom Glaisyer
Tom Glaisyer
Knight Media Policy Fellow

As a Knight Media Policy Fellow at New America, Tom Glaisyer coordinates the...

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Rebecca MacKinnon
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow

Rebecca MacKinnon is a journalist and activist whose work focuses on the...

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Sascha Meinrath
Director, Open Technology Institute

Sascha Meinrath is the Director of the New America Foundation's Open...

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Evgeny Morozov
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow

Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of...

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Romesh Ratnesar
Future Tense Fellow

Romesh Ratnesar is Deputy Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and the...

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Faith Smith
External Relations Manager

As the External Relations Manager, Faith Smith is responsible for initiating...

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Adam Sneed
Researcher, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program

Adam Sneed is a researcher for the Future Tense program at the New America...

Nicholas Thompson
Nicholas Thompson
Senior Research Fellow, Future Tense

Nicholas Thompson is a senior editor at The New Yorker, a...

Robert Wright
Robert Wright
Senior Future Tense Fellow

Robert Wright is Editor in Chief of Bloggingheads.tv and the author, most...

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