Technology
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Every so often a piece of technology arrives that does not just change what we can do but quietly rewrites what we owe each other. The wheel did it. Antibiotics did it. The contraceptive pill did it. And there may be one coming that does it more intimately than any of them, because it touches…
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The island of Singapore imports approximately ninety percent of its food. It has a land area of roughly seven hundred square kilometers, a population of nearly six million people, and almost no agricultural land in the conventional sense. In 2019, the Singapore Food Agency announced a thirty-by-thirty goal: to produce thirty percent of the city-state’s…
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The hospital as we know it, a large institution where sick people are concentrated together under professional supervision, is a relatively recent invention. For most of human history, serious illness was managed at home, with the practitioner coming to the patient rather than the patient going to the practitioner. The shift toward institutional care accelerated…