Where is Information Technology Taking Us?
Every issue explores cutting-edge developments in technology, medicine, education, climate change, and much more. Articles provide in-depth analyses of science and technology’s impact on public policy, the economy, and society—bringing today’s best minds to bear on tomorrow’s most critical topics.
Editor's Journal
Is Anybody Listening?
One of the satisfactions of publishing a magazine is in generating a physical product. For many magazines, that’s enough. Success is achieved when the reader is informed, amused, uplifted, or stimulated. Issues… Read More
From the Hill
From the Hill – Spring 1997
President proposes 2.2 percent boost in R&D budget President Clinton has proposed a $75.5 billion R&D budget for FY 1998, which is 2.2 percent or $1.6 billion more than the FY 1997… Read More
Perspectives
A Fresh Approach to Immigration
Over the past 20 years, the control of immigration in the U.S. science and technology (S&T) sector has become a topic of perennial debate. Foreign-born scientists and students make up a significant… Read More
Features
A New Business Agenda for Improving U.S. Schools
For more than a decade, since the report A Nation at Risk warned of “a rising tide of mediocrity” in our public schools, members of the U.S business community have been actively… Read MoreGlobal Telecommunications Rules: The Race with Technology
In February, the telecommunications industry was hit by the advance of two revolutions. The advance of the digital technology revolution was marked by the launch of the first toll-quality Internet telephony service… Read MoreFrom Technology Politics to Technology Policy
One of the most contentious issues in the 1995-96 congressional session was the Clinton administration’s technology policy priorities and programs. Although one might expect Republicans to support efforts aimed at improving the… Read MoreFixing the National Laboratory System
Over the past 20 years, there have been numerous studies of the Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories. Most of these studies recognize the high technical quality and unique capabilities of the… Read MoreForging a Path to a Post-Nuclear U.S. Military
For 50 years, nuclear weapons have been central to U.S. military strategy-an indispensable element in deterring and retaliating against an attack on U.S. territory. Now, six years after the end of the… Read MoreRoundtable: The Future of Computing and Telecommunications
As part of its 10th anniversary symposium on May 16, 1996, the National Research Council’s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board convened a panel of experts to speculate about what the future holds.… Read MoreDon’t Look Back: Science Funding for the Future
The beginning of a new administration and a new Congress provides an opportunity to reassess national science and technology (S&T) policies. A reassessment is badly needed because shifting national priorities and strong… Read MoreSpring 1997 Update
Fisheries Management Improving In “Where Have All the Fishes Gone?” (Issues, Spring 1994), I documented how overfishing and poor management had devastated the U.S. commercial fishing industry, and I called… Read More
Book Reviews
Raising Expectations
American children are learning more mathematics and science than they did 20 years ago. That’s the good news. The bad news is that what they’re learning remains far from adequate and far… Read More
Insight on the Inner City
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor provides an antidote to analysts and advocates of all political persuasions who think that the economic and social problems of the inner… Read More