--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 7 description: Wearable tech for the sick, reimagining the Pentagon, football's cultural divide, how law school worsens income inequality, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3572500/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-7/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-07T17:01:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:07.957Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best ideas og:description: Learn about: Wearable tech for the sick, reimaging the Pentagon, football as cultural divider, and more. og:url: https://time.com/3572500/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-7/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best ideas twitter:description: Learn about: Wearable tech for the sick, reimaging the Pentagon, football as cultural divider, and more. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 7 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 7, 2014 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 7, 2014 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Reimagining a Pentagon for the future in pictures: Group personnel by skills, streamline leadership, dump outdated regional commands.**](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/13/ctrl%5Falt%5Fdelete%5Fhow%5Fto%5Fredesign%5Fthe%5Fmilitary%5Ffrom%5Fscratch) By Shawn Brimley and Paul Scharre with Valerio Pellegrini in Foreign Policy **2\.** [**Innovators should cater new wearable tech to those who need it most: older and chronically ill people.**](http://www.wired.com/2014/11/where-fitness-trackers-fail/) By J.C. Herz in Wired **3\.** [**Add kids football to the list of cultural dividers in America.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/upshot/football-the-newest-partisan-divide.html) By David Leonhardt in the Upshot **4\.** [**“We live in a world of evolutionary state disorder.” We must upgrade our global institutions or risk a future with no rules.**](http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/reform-international-order-by-mark-m--brown-2014-11) By Mark Malloch Brown at Project Syndicate **5\.** [**In resisting the law of supply and demand, law schools are saddling students with debt and aggravating income inequality.**](http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/legal-one-per-cent) By Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3572500/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-7/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3572500/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-7/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 7","datePublished":"2014-11-07T17:01:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:07.957Z","description":"Wearable tech for the sick, reimagining the Pentagon, football's cultural divide, how law school worsens income inequality, and more.","url":"https://time.com/3572500/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-7/","keywords":["Innovation","Military","Fitbit","Technology","Football","U.S.","Income Inequality","World","Pentagon","Law","democracy","student debt","Republican"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3572500/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-7/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 7"}}]}] ```