The last issue of 2023 explores big questions & hard problems

Plastics. Politics. Twitter. And other hard problems.

Subscribe for $8/month Weekend Reads Technology in Perspective 11.04.23 | The Hard Problems issue Technology is an engine for problems, for solving them and for creating entirely new ones—and then we perversely turn to even newer technologies to try to solve those. In this last issue of 2023, we explore big questions and hard problems and ask: What role can—and should—technology play in solving some of our biggest problems? For a limited time, subscribe and save 25% to ensure you get a print copy of the Hard Problems issue. Think that your plastic is being recycled? Think again. Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers are grappling with what it would take for AI to become conscious. Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness conundrum Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers are grappling with what it would take for AI to become conscious. Government technology is famously bad. It doesn't have to be. New York City is fixing the relationship between government and technology–and not in the ways you'd expect. How to fix the internet If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond the big platforms. This mathematician is making sense of nature's complexity Hungarian scholar Gábor Domokos aims to understand the physical world by describing its forms in the simplest possible geometry. How this Turing Award–winning researcher became a legendary academic advisor Theoretical computer scientist Manuel Blum has guided generations of graduate students into fruitful careers in the field. Death to captchas Proving you're human on websites is harder than ever—but alternative tests are gaining ground. The grassroots push to digitize India's most precious documents The Servants of Knowledge collection on the Internet Archive is an effort to make up for the lack of library resources in India. Register now. Two days of innovation and inspiration on the MIT campus. November 14-15, 2023. For a limited time, save 25% on an annual subscription to MIT Technology Review and gain access to our Hard Problems edition, which explores technology's role in solving the world's most pressing issues. SUBSCRIBE FOR $8/MONTH Was this newsletter forwarded to you, and you'd like to see more? Sign up today → View in browser | This email was sent to manojdole1.InformationTech@blogger.com. Manage your preferences | Unsubscribe | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy MIT Technology Review · 196 Broadway, 3rd fl, · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA Copyright © 2023 MIT Technology Review, All rights reserved. Opt out of all promotional emails and newsletters from MIT Technology Review