Governing the Barely Imagined | Spring 2022

Los agentes electrificadores y los ladrones de luz de la ciudad de México

Jay Lloyd — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:22:00 +0000

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Tomás Sánchez

La suerte de Tomás Sánchez dio un giro inesperado una mañana de 1908. Sánchez era dueño del molino San Antonio, ubicado sobre la calle Pueblita en la… Read More

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When All Research Is Dual Use

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 23 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

In a March 2022 paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from a US pharmaceutical company who were building artificial intelligence systems for virtual drug discovery issued a wake-up call to their… Read More

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Open Science Hardware

Issues — Tue, 17 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

In “Bringing Open Source to the Global Lab Bench” (Issues, Winter 2022), Julieta Arancio and Shannon Dosemagen write that “more inclusive public participation in science requires more than making the… Read More

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Building a Bottom-Up Bioeconomy

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 16 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

It’s 2032 and biology, applied to some of humanity’s biggest problems, has transformed economies and societies around the world. In the decade since the COVID-19 pandemic, global supply chains for chemicals, materials, … Read More

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A Montreal Protocol for Space Junk?

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 11 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

On November 15, 2021, the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) received an early wake-up call from NASA’s mission control. The day before, Russia had unexpectedly conducted an antisatellite technology (ASAT)… Read More

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A New Vision of National Security

Issues — Tue, 10 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Climate change presents numerous new difficulties for thinking about security, not least, as Carol Dumaine notes in “Redefining Security” (Issues, Winter 2022), the simple but profoundly important point that assumptions of a… Read More

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An Inflection Point for Space

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 09 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

In December 2021, China accused SpaceX, the private aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, of flying two of its Starlink satellites unacceptably close to China’s space station in July and October of… Read More

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Electrifying Agents and the Power Thieves of Mexico City

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 04 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

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Mugshot from Tomás Sánchez’s booking record.

One morning in 1908, the fate of Tomás Sánchez, owner of the San Antonio mill on Mexico City’s Pueblita Street, took a sharp… Read More

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Pricing Unknowable Risks

Issues — Tue, 03 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

In addressing efforts to estimate the benefits of combating climate change, David Simpson’s article asks in its title, “How Do We Price an Unknowable Risk?” (Issues, Winter 2022). To be… Read More

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Unmet Desire

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

I vividly remember March 2020, the month the United States shut down as COVID-19 spread uncontrollably and upended daily life. At the time, I worked at Cornell University in upstate New York.… Read More

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