The World as You'll Know It
Newsletter / Issue No. 27
Five Years After Covid, Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?
The scientific response to Covid-19 was remarkable, as doctors, scientists and industry collaborated to develop tests, treatments and ultimately a vaccine. Experts believe the scientific community could do that again. What worries them is all the other aspects of pandemic response.
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Floating solar cells could help power millions of U.S homes. AI has almost entirely achieved real-time language translation. Tiny replicas of human organs grown in a lab could accelerate medical treatments. And a company claiming to be able to remove cancer cells from patients’ blood could not, in fact, do that.
Technology / Feature
A $10-Billion Plan to Sell Africa's Wind and Sun to Countries 7,000 Miles Away
A deep look at how green hydrogen could capitalize on remote areas of renewable resources and redraw the world's energy map.
Artificial Intelligence / Feature
One Company's Decision to Put AI Into the Ground
What does it mean to adopt AI? For John Deere it meant hundreds of millions of dollars, a new corporate culture and forever changing the relationship between a farmer and the land.
By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about Clean Energy Tech
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about Clean Energy Tech
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Timeline
13 Milestones in the History of Robots
People have been making machines that replicate human abilities for centuries. These are the breakthroughs that got robots to where they are today. Photo: NMAH
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Feature
Robots' final frontier? Taking care of us.
To understand how far robots are from replacing humans, just look at the everyday task of using a fork.
By Clive Thompson