The World as You'll Know It
Newsletter / Issue No. 55
In the World of Aviation Safety, AI Takes It Slow
While AI has proliferated in industries around the world, there is still no safety-critical AI tool being used in any airport. A nine-year project at London’s Heathrow Airport illustrates the challenge of integrating AI into air traffic control when hundreds of lives could be at stake.
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A treatment for reinjecting protein back into aging eggs could give older patients greater hope for having children. Engineered diamonds can be used as ultrasensitive sensors. A profile of the long-time environmentalist who has become the most effective opponent of offshore wind projects.
Technology / Feature
How healthy am I? My immunome knows the score.
Groundbreaking new tests reveal patterns in our immune systems that can signal underlying disease and tell us how well we might recover from our next cold. I got my results in a text message.
By David Ewing Duncan
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.
By Paul Tullis
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about the Future of Aging
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about the Future of Aging
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
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
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