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TECHNOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

IDEAS | JAMES PETHOKOUKIS
Let’s make the future what it used to be
We’re still waiting for flying cars, but we could be on the verge of the most expansive era of innovation in human history.

LETTERS
Done right, online learning could be answer to our education needs
Education has been slow to adopt technology that can dramatically improve instruction and allow students to learn any time, anywhere, at their own pace. That must change.

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER
How real could virtual reality become?
Philosopher David Chalmers argues that computer-generated worlds aren’t any less meaningful than the physical one.

IDEAS | JOHN M. JORDAN
Metaverses for good
Skepticism about what Facebook will do in virtual reality is overshadowing the technology’s human potential, including for people with disabilities. Who will step up and build those applications?

Deepak Ganesan, Niteesh Choudhry, and Benjamin Marlin
Budding technology should be adapted for eldercare
These developments, when applied to monitoring devices, have the potential to enable precision and adaptive, data-driven interventions, granting clinicians and caregivers critical insight into the health status of patients.

Li-Huei Tsai
How science, technology, and industry can work together to cure Alzheimer’s
The Alzheimer’s research community must acknowledge the gaps in our current approach to curing the disease and make significant changes.

Joseph Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto
Needed: Federal leadership on R&D for our aging society
Adults age 65 and over will outnumber children by 2034. By 2060, they will account for nearly a quarter of Americans.

IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER
Facebook’s next privacy nightmare will be a sight to see
The personal data the social network collects now is nothing compared with what it might glean about people in virtual reality.

IDEAS | Brian Albrecht and Sam Bowman
A Big Tech crackdown could just make the Internet worse
Innovation would suffer if Google and Amazon had to justify every service they add to their platforms.

EDITORIAL
A way for Congress to make Facebook and Google vs. the news media a fair fight
Publishers should be given the power to band together and negotiate with the platforms on more equal footing.