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Giving Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars Another Chance

Obama slashed Bush-era funding for the clean-energy vehicle. Now he may reverse course.
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Forget About the Mythical Lone Inventor in the Garage

Real innovations happen in big, well-funded labs.
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How Space-Age Nostalgia Hobbles Our Future

Contrary to popular belief, public support for space exploration in the 1960s was far from universal.
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Why Translation Still Hasn't Been Automated

We need to teach machines to understand the meaning of words. That’s really hard.
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Machines Shouldn’t Grade Student Writing—Yet

Standardized tests will finally ask good essay questions. But robot grading threatens that progress.
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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

Government and the Net Serve Us, Not Vice Versa
May 16 | Wired
Rebecca MacKinnon
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
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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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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...

Tim Wu
Tim Wu
Future Tense Fellow

Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School and the chairman of media...

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