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Consent of the Networked

How can digital technology be structured and governed to maximize the good and minimize the evil?
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To the Moon, Newt!

Gingrich’s wasteful, scientifically unsound plan to put colonists on lunar soil.
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The Four Stages of Introducing New Technologies

A futurist explains how society moves from fear to acceptance of smartphones, computers, and other advances.
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No One Can Win the Future

We are not engaged in economic or technological competition with China or with anyone else. It's wrong to pit U.S. and Chinese scientists against each other in a research arms race.
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Saving Face

How Google, Facebook, and other tech companies hide behind “opt-in” policies.
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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

Mobile Phones Will Not Save the Poorest of the Poor
February 09 | Slate
Sascha Meinrath
Jamie M. Zimmerman
The Death of the Cyberflâneur
February 04 | The New York Times
Evgeny Morozov
Twitter Isn’t Evil
January 31 | The New Yorker
Nicholas Thompson
We're Losing Control of Our Digital Privacy
January 27 | CNN
Rebecca MacKinnon
The Dangers of Sharing
January 27 | The New York Times
Evgeny Morozov
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Events

Tinkering With Tomorrow
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 12:15pm | Washington
Fear of the Future Happy Hour
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 6:30pm | Washington
What Will Turn Us On in 2030?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 9:00am | Washington
Will Robots Steal Your Job?
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 3:30pm | Washington
Is Our Techo-Human Marriage in Need of Counseling?
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 12:15pm | 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 Initiative

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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