Autobahn Alternative?
The two-person company Solmove has a plan to pave Germany’s roads with small, durable, slip-resistant solar panels. A What's Next article from the Fall 2019 issue.
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History’s Tech Lessons
Economist Carl Benedikt Frey offers a refreshingly human-centered analysis of technological progress in The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation. A book review from the Fall 2019 issue.
People-Powered Trauma Care
The chaos of Dhaka's roads inspired Jon Moussally, a physician in Massachusetts and instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to cofound a volunteer-based emergency response system aimed at reducing death from road traffic injuries. A Field Report from the Fall 2019 issue.
Seeing a New Horizon
The international nonprofit Orbis' investments in cutting-edge technologies have revolutionized its telemedicine capabilities by expediting two-way communication between ophthalmologists in the United States and Europe and their counterparts in Asia, Africa, and South America.. A Field Report from the Fall 2019 issue.
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The Challenge of Organizational Learning
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The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.