--- title: The Slow Death of the SAT description: The end of the SAT, the slim odds for closing Guantanamo Bay, ending cable's stranglehold on the Internet and more. canonical: https://time.com/4180598/slow-death-sat/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-14T17:01:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:35.833Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Slow Death of the SAT og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4180598/slow-death-sat/ 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: The Slow Death of the SAT twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Slow Death of the SAT by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 14, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 14, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Is the SAT irrelevant?**](http://daily.jstor.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-sat/) By Livia Gershon in JSTOR Daily **2\.** [**Here’s why the U.S. will probably never close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.**](http://time.com/4178779/obama-close-guantanamo-bay/) By Jack Goldsmith in Time **3\.** [**This step-by-step guide could loosen cable’s stranglehold on Internet access.**](https://medium.com/backchannel/big-cable-owns-internet-access-here-s-how-to-change-that-131fe62cd98f#.oh51ih395) By Susan Crawford in Backchannel **4\.** [**Closing the technology gap for the blind with a cheap “microfluid” braille touchscreen.**](http://www.technologyreview.com/news/545301/in-pursuit-of-an-affordable-tablet-for-the-blind/) By Signe Brewster in MIT Technology Review **5\.** [**This robot lifeguard is going to work on Europe’s refugee crisis.**](http://www.wired.com/2016/01/a-robot-life-preserver-goes-to-work-in-the-greek-refugee-crisis/) By Matt Simon in Wired  [_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/4180598/slow-death-sat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4180598/slow-death-sat/"},"headline":"The Slow Death of the SAT","datePublished":"2016-01-14T17:01:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:35.833Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4180598/slow-death-sat/","keywords":["Innovation","Refugees","Guantánamo Bay","Cable","blindness"],"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/4180598/slow-death-sat/","name":"The Slow Death of the SAT"}}]}] ```