The Tomorrow Report 2017
Ideas from a changing world
Why Nothing Works Anymore
Technology has its own purposes.
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Karen Bleier / AFP / Getty A Bot That Identifies 'Toxic' Comments Online
A Google-funded algorithm flags messages that are likely to drive others away from a conversation.
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Ioannis Rekleitis / McGill University The 'Curious' Robots Searching for the Ocean's Secrets
A new class of machines knows how to recognize and investigate unexpected things that pop up underwater.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP A Probiotic Skin Cream Made With a Person’s Own Microbes
A new approach to treating eczema harnesses the defensive bacteria that already live on us.
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hides / Duplass / Paul Spella / The ... Zapping Your Brain at Home to Cure Fatigue
How a low dose of electrical current is helping some patients overcome tiredness and cognition problems
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Cait May / The Atlantic Should We Die?
Radical longevity may change the way we live—and not necessarily for the better.
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Daniel Maurer / AP What Can You Do With the World's Largest Family Tree?
Scientists are beginning to find out.
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Aly Song / Reuters China’s Artificial-Intelligence Boom
The country’s universities and tech giants are starting to surpass American ones when it comes to researching and implementing AI.
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James K Morris / UK HealthCare The Science That Could Make You Crave Broccoli More Than Chocolate
Neurogastronomy wants to rewire how people perceive flavors—and may be able to help those who have lost their sense of taste.
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Noah Berger / Reuters The Myth of Apple's Great Design
The company’s new “spaceship” headquarters shows how its beauty has always been skin deep.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters How a Corpse-Loving Fly Could Help Catch Rhino Poachers
A South African game reserve has a new strategy for curbing illegal hunting: forensic entomology.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters More Data, Better Dining?
Damian Mogavero, a consultant, argues that analytics can help restaurants become more creative and profitable.
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Reuters It’s Ridiculous to Use Virtual Reality to Empathize With Refugees
The technology isn’t the moral game-changer that some make it out to be.
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Oli Scarff / Getty Is AI a Threat to Christianity?
Are you there, God? It’s I, robot.
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Reuters The DNA Test as Horoscope
Inside the growing world of lifestyle genetics tests
