Technology
& Society

Eric Schmidt & Graham Allison worry that too many Americans are convinced, wrongly, that US technological supremacy is unassailable.

Simon Johnson proposes a new infrastructure that could lead to an exponential increase in the number of tests for everyone.

Diane Coyle predicts that the COVID-19 crisis will intensify political and regulatory scrutiny of Big Tech.

Leeza Osipenko worries that big-data and artificial-intelligence applications are being rushed to market without due diligence.

Fadi Chehadé warns that efforts by governments to control key digital identifiers could have catastrophic consequences.

Kenneth Rogoff hopes that the pandemic will finally trigger a long overdue technological disruption of higher education.

Daron Acemoglu explains how to reverse a decades-long trend of wage stagnation for nearly half the US workforce.

Michael Kremer & Gilbert F. Houngbo see four ways in which boosting technology investments can pay off for the world's poorest rural communities.