Interview | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/section/interview/ The best minds on the most important topics. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:29:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Interview | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/section/interview/ 32 32 “There’s a Real Urgency to Be Ready When That Bioconvergence Happens.” https://issues.org/interview-senator-young-bioconvergence/ https://issues.org/interview-senator-young-bioconvergence/#respond Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46455 Senator Todd Young shares his vision for how emerging biotechnologies can revolutionize agriculture, industry, and warfighting.

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]]> https://issues.org/interview-senator-young-bioconvergence/feed/ 0 “Universities Are the Invisible Hand.” https://issues.org/interview-mcnutt-crow/ https://issues.org/interview-mcnutt-crow/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45590 On March 12, 2025, the leaders of the Issues editorial board—Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences, and Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University—met on Zoom to offer… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/interview-mcnutt-crow/feed/ 0 “The Currency of Power Is Increasingly Becoming Science and Technology.” https://issues.org/interview-dario-gil/ https://issues.org/interview-dario-gil/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44614 Chair of the National Science Board Darío Gil also leads IBM Research, one of the largest corporate labs in the world. He discusses how science is the new currency of power, the challenges in developing a STEM workforce, and the possibility of a “NATO of science and technology.”

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]]> https://issues.org/interview-dario-gil/feed/ 0 “You Learn More From Failure—When Things Are Not Working Well.” https://issues.org/interview-katalin-kariko/ https://issues.org/interview-katalin-kariko/#respond Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43611 Katalin Karikó is a pioneer in research on messenger RNA (mRNA) and its medical possibilities, which were revealed on a global scale during the COVID-19 pandemic. With her colleague Drew Weissman, she… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/interview-katalin-kariko/feed/ 0 “This Is Also a Time of Great Possibility and Great Capability.” https://issues.org/interview-saul-perlmutter/ https://issues.org/interview-saul-perlmutter/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42855 Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter is best known for his groundbreaking discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating—for which he shares the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. But Perlmutter, a professor of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/interview-saul-perlmutter/feed/ 0 “AI Is a Tool, and Its Values Are Human Values.” https://issues.org/interview-godmother-ai-fei-fei-li/ https://issues.org/interview-godmother-ai-fei-fei-li/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41989 Fei-Fei Li has been called the godmother of AI for her pioneering work in computer vision and image recognition. Li invented ImageNet, a foundational large-scale dataset that has contributed to key developments… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/interview-godmother-ai-fei-fei-li/feed/ 0 “Libraries Are That Safe Place for Discussion of Ideas.” https://issues.org/interview-librarian-congress-carla-hayden/ https://issues.org/interview-librarian-congress-carla-hayden/#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41025 Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden discusses the dynamic and essential role libraries play in American life—as community spaces, information repositories, trusted sources, and conveners of civil discourse. 

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]]> https://issues.org/interview-librarian-congress-carla-hayden/feed/ 0 “How Does This Country Do Big Things?” https://issues.org/interview-arati-prabhakar/ https://issues.org/interview-arati-prabhakar/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=40326 Engineer and applied physicist Arati Prabhakar is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and—as assistant to the president for science and technology—is part of President… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/interview-arati-prabhakar/feed/ 0 “Real Policymaking Involves a Lot of Other Things Besides Pure Technical Analysis.” https://issues.org/ben-bernanke-interview/ https://issues.org/ben-bernanke-interview/#respond Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=39541 Economist Ben S. Bernanke served as chair of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014, was one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2022, and is currently… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/ben-bernanke-interview/feed/ 0 “The Complexity of Technology’s Consequences Is Going Up Exponentially, But Our Wisdom and Awareness Are Not.” https://issues.org/tristan-harris-humane-technology-misinformation-ai-democracy/ https://issues.org/tristan-harris-humane-technology-misinformation-ai-democracy/#respond Tue, 16 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=39170 Tristan Harris is a technology ethicist and the cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology. He’ll be speaking at the Nobel Prize Summit 2023: Truth, Trust, and Hope at the National Academy… Read More

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