List of Science and Technology articles
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Alipay and WeChat QR codes for online payment are displayed at a meat stall at a market in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu province. Sept. 10.(STR/AFP/Getty Images) China Can’t Afford a Cashless Society
A mania for mobile payments is leaving the poor behind.
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A Chinese flag flies over the company logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing on January 14, 2010. (LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images) Google Is Handing the Future of the Internet to China
The company has been quietly collaborating with the Chinese government on a new, censored search engine—and abandoning its own ideals in the process.
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Print The Rise of the Cyber-Mercenaries
What happens when private firms have cyberweapons as powerful as those owned by governments?
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(iStockphoto/Foreign Policy illustration) The Data Arms Race Is No Excuse for Abandoning Privacy
Tech competition is being used to push a dangerous corporate agenda.
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(Illustration by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) The Real Payoff From Artificial Intelligence Is Still a Decade Off
The robot revolution hasn't started yet.
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(iStockphoto/Foreign Policy illustration) Ecuador’s All-Seeing Eye Is Made in China
The country's pioneering surveillance and response system is entirely Chinese-built and funded.
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Giant letters, reading the word "blockchain" are displayed at the blockchain centre, which aims at boosting start-ups, on February 7, 2018 in Lithuania's capital Vilnius. (PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Images) America Needs a Blockchain Strategy ASAP
The technology behind cryptocurrency can keep the United States safe—but only if the country takes advantage of its head start.
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(Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images/iStockphoto/Foreign Policy illustration) China’s AI Giants Can’t Say No to the Party
Open debate about the ethics of tech is a strength, not a weakness, of the U.S. system.
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A nurse takes care of a terminally ill patient at an HIV/AIDS clinic in Kiev, Ukraine, on July 6, 2010. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images) Welcome to the Next Deadly AIDS Pandemic
The world thought it had fought the HIV virus to a stalemate—but its strategy was flawed in ways that are only now becoming clear.
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A Google self-driving car is displayed at the Google headquarters on September 25, 2012 in Mountain View, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Self-Driving Cars Are on the Road to Nowhere
Technology companies have been selling a vision of greener cities and safer roads. It's nothing more than hype.
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Dr. John Fildes walks with President Donald Trump at University Medical Center, October 4, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Trump’s Battle Against Breastfeeding Is a Small Part of a Wider War
With escalating drug prices and growing vaccine paranoia, American populism is taking down the edifice of global public health.
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John Tomac illustration for Foreign Policy Closing the Factory Doors
For two centuries, countries have used low-wage labor to climb out of poverty. What will happen when robots take those jobs?
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John Tomac illustration for Foreign Policy Our Data, Ourselves
How to stop tech firms from monopolizing our personal information.
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John Tomac illustration for Foreign Policy Protect Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Robots can actually create jobs — if countries get their trade policies right.
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The Red Dress illustration for Foreign Policy Facing the Future of Work
FP’s editor in chief introduces our July issue on how to adapt to robots, AI, trade wars, and an aging world.
