--- description: Vaccination's broad benefits, the end of credit cards, and reassessing Henry Kissinger's realism, and Instagram for medical diagnoses. title: These Are Today's Best Ideas image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 8 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 8, 2014 4:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 8, 2014 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**To calculate the value of vaccines, we must imagine the economic cost of a world without them.**](http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/communicable-disease-medicine-health-vaccines-still-matter-90192/ "undefined") By Michael White in Pacific Standard **2\.** [**Apple may change everything again, this time by finally killing the credit card.**](http://www.wired.com/2014/09/iphone-credit-card/ "undefined") By Marcus Wohlsen in Wired **3\.** [**Local government – often heralded as the best kind of government – is actually America’s most broken and oppressive.**](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/ferguson-worst-governments.html "undefined") By Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine **4\.** [**“Instagram for doctors” can help solve medical mysteries.**](http://www.vox.com/2014/9/7/6111685/instagram-for-doctors-figure-1-app "undefined") By Sarah Kliff in Vox **5\.** [**A policy of realism, tempered with humanity, is good for people and nations.**](http://time.com/3275385/henry-kissinger/ "undefined") By Walter Isaacson in Time  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3303814/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-8/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3303814/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-8/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 8","datePublished":"2014-09-08T16:01:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:04.111Z","description":"Vaccination's broad benefits, the end of credit cards, and reassessing Henry Kissinger's realism, and Instagram for medical diagnoses.","url":"https://time.com/3303814/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-8/","keywords":["Innovation","Foreign Policy","Apple","Government","Doctor","Instagram","local","vaccine"],"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/3303814/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-8/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 8"}}]}] ```