🔜 Sneak peek: The Build issue

Dear Valued Reader,

I am so excited to share a sneak peek into our upcoming May/June issue: Build.

Building is an inherently optimistic undertaking, one that requires optimism about the future. It's rarely a simple endeavor but it's an urge that continues to drive us forward: Can we build a better future? What might that look like? How is technology helping (or hindering) our progress? In these pages, we explore how we might create the future we want – while also thinking about future that has yet to arrive.

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A few highlights from our Build issue include:

A brief, weird history of brainwashing
The rare and raw materials that shape modern civilization – and the toll their extraction takes on humans and the environment
Designing vegan cheese with AI
Growing glow-in-the-dark petunias

We hope you'll find plenty of other stories to grab your attention—we really enjoyed building this issue for you.

Thank you for being part of our community.

Allison Arieff
Editorial Director of Print
MIT Technology Review

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