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![Technology: Panacea or Plague?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullce62b35b-7bc1-41d7-9891-9dd882eef99e/34801755713_2757dcbf70_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1067%2C1067&w=290)
As educators, parents, policymakers, and psychologists wrestle with the question of what we gain and what we give up as our reliance on technology grows by the day, digital natives often find the question quaint. For them, it’s not black and white — which makes it all the more important to focus our public conversation on the nuances of technology and how we can harness it...
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Thanks to technology, we are more connected than ever—digitally. But at what cost?
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Technology is redefining who we trust, and this shift in trust has fundamental consequences.
![What Is Technology's Toll on Intimacy?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null4692a688-057f-48a1-b1af-88a5aaa28510/28020917585_e1dfce5974_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=160%2C0%2C1279%2C1279&w=290)
Thanks to technology, we are more connected than ever-digitally. But at what cost? How have technologies, like online dating sites and apps like Tinder, changed attitudes and behaviors? How do we choose a partner and stay interested when we have an almost infinite world of choices at our fingertips? Will marriage become a thing of the past? How do men and women interact an...
![Consumer Technology on Parade](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/97e42059-8794-4f5e-b658-6b8b7877476b/29113829828_3a22dd2e90_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=637%2C0%2C2226%2C2226&w=290)
Once associated mostly with IV poles and standard-issue hospital gowns, health-related design has entered a new era with creative and functional products that observe, inform, soothe, and connect. A stuffed animal named Chemo Duck helps children with cancer express their emotions; new digital health records give nurses in Rwanda the tools to provide quality care and improv...
![Using Technology for the Public Good](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/ed79cde8-0aa2-4c70-a774-640f821b420c/AdobeStock_216576321.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=609%2C0%2C3797%2C3797&w=290)
![Adobe stock image China](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null7769f101-1ed0-4a8f-86da-76722c8c1627/AdobeStock_152465950.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&mono=0a80bc&q=80&rect=152%2C0%2C3840%2C3840&w=400)
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China was the first country in the world to experience effects from COVID-19. How did the country make it through?
![What Technology Makes Us Forget about Life](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullb17ca9b6-b446-4afa-bb61-bc62dce49f3e/34749327674_7b98db0be0_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1067%2C1067&w=290)
Technology may teach the pleasures of controlled exchanges—admit it, texting is often so much easier than real-time talking. But here is what we know about life: We lose out as individuals and as citizens in a democracy when we don’t take the time to talk to each other and when we don’t learn how to listen to each other, especially when it comes to talking and listening to...
![How Technology Can Transform Patient Care](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullc2bf053f-2b77-4185-9cbb-13abd3e53579/AdobeStock_238730671.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=994%2C0%2C4647%2C4644&w=290)
![Cutting-Edge Technology Takes Aim at Gun Violence](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/c9163745-6207-4022-a2b7-ae9f938daa8f/42250460714_31545d8a38_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
Gun violence in the US is a public health epidemic. With partisan battles currently making state and federal legislative solutions elusive, private sector trendsetters are quietly exploring other avenues of opportunity. The Smart Tech Challenges Foundation funds research to advance biometric identification and other security technologies that allow only authorized users to...
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In this session, we’ll give early-stage climate solutions entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their ideas to the audience. You’ll get a peek at the new, exciting technologies that will drive climate mitigation and adaptation, and explore potential engagement opportunities with these growing firms.
![Drawdown: We Have the Technology to End Global Warming](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/d053f728-47f8-4612-87d7-91f5d1bd5d95/42327951734_1a2d782220_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1120%2C0%2C4480%2C4480&w=290)
Author Paul Hawken shares the remarkable story of how a diverse group of researchers from around the world came together to identify, research, and model the most substantive 100 existing solutions to bring us to drawdown — that moment when greenhouse gas levels peak and begin to drop on a year-to-year basis. He shows the path forward that can roll back global warming with...
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How will emerging technologies continue to impact a new generation of Americans?
![Why Technology, not Goods, Is the Driver of Globalization](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/1765c162-0fe7-4f02-bdce-98ae80016434/42328976824_6a79ea3289_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=500%2C0%2C2000%2C2000&w=290)
Historically, globalization has been characterized by cross-border flows of resources and products. Financial exchanges follow, allowing for direct investment at home and abroad. In the digital economy, we see massive flows of information and data, which are perhaps even more critical to economic growth, crossing borders everywhere. In an era of anti-globalism, can the pac...
![Climate Solutions Technology Showcase
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In this session, we’ll give early-stage climate solutions entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their ideas to the audience. You’ll get a peek at the new, exciting technologies that will drive climate mitigation and adaptation, and explore potential engagement opportunities with these growing firms.
![What Germany Can Teach Us About Manufacturing, Technology, and Trade](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/7a123894-80e0-46fb-94b1-da62cf26f53a/43001557132_8e47bd5fe3_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=442%2C0%2C2115%2C2115&w=290)
The United States and Germany have much in common: advanced industrial economies, high living standards, first-class universities, and leading companies. They also share the same pressures from globalization — trade competition, technological change, movement of people and ideas — around which to innovate and adapt. But the data makes it clear that Germany has better maint...
![Presented by Calm: Embracing Technology in Mental Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/7862054f-c7bc-45cb-a5f8-9c54127a8f7d/230623_tech_mentalhealth_003.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=666%2C0%2C2667%2C2667&w=290)
One of the most pressing conversations in mental healthcare right now is the negative impact that technology — including screen time and social media — may have on our minds. But technology also provides an unprecedented opportunity to expand access to high-quality, effective, and personalized mental healthcare. Digital tools can help people proactively make positive lifes...
![Made in America: A New Era of Clean Technology Competitiveness](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/1e05e008-2c31-42c3-b278-0b818cf039ac/52739863500_50074fbbe0_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1808%2C0%2C4640%2C4640&w=290)
With tech from geothermal systems to carbon capture, the US has the opportunity to be a key global cleantech supplier—employing millions of Americans, bolstering domestic supply chains, and making massive industrial investments to drive down costs and accelerate climate action. So how do we usher in this new era?
![Aspen Ideas: Climate Innovation and Future Technology Expo](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e24d8aae-63ca-48fc-8cf8-f076b6c3a05e/470940920-shutterstock_307407380.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=302%2C0%2C3224%2C3228&w=290)
![Bridging Technology, Physics, and Medicine: A New Frontier](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullb6ff3298-f4ef-4704-847c-96448b519afd/35118946200_20d8ed6c29_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1068%2C1068&w=290)
Nanobiophysics draws together the mainstays of physics, such as mechanical forces and electromagnetic fields, with the biochemical and cellular processes at the foundation of medicine. Anita Goel, a pioneer in this emerging platform, helped rocket MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant superbug, to the International Space Station so that scientists can study the influence of micro...