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Technology is redefining who we trust, and this shift in trust has fundamental consequences.

China was the first country in the world to experience effects from COVID-19. How did the country make it through?

Tim O’Reilly says we should be harnessing technology, rather than fearing it.

David Agus, author of "The Lucky Years," says we’re living in a golden age when the latest science and technology can customize care.

Jeffrey Sachs is distressed about the political and social atmosphere in the United States.

The age of technology and the internet provides constant easy access to sexual content and information about sex, for all tastes and curiosities. But survey data show that young people are having less sex than people of previous generations did at their age, and the experts are trying to figure out why. In this 2019 talk from the Aspen Ideas: Health archives, three profess...

Learn about the latest technological developments in gene editing.

A technological future where our brain waves could be monitored and our thoughts decoded and analyzed — sometimes against our will — is not as far away as we think. But our existing legal protections and conception of human rights around cognitive liberty are trailing innovations in neurotechnology. Brain hacking tools and devices could bring massive benefits, for people s...

With major increases in life expectancy, should we be thinking about redesigning our life course?

Biographer Walter Isaacson's latest book tells the story of biochemist Jennifer Doudna. She helped develop a controversial tool that has the power to transform the human race. CRISPR can edit genes to cure diseases but can also be used to create designer babies.