--- --- # Why It's Time to Rethink the Fire Truck by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 22, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 22, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**It’s time to rethink the fire truck.**](http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/01/firetruck-design-smaller-city-street/425142/) By Linda Poon at CityLab **2\.** [**The water crisis in Flint is a lot of things, but it’s not a natural disaster.**](http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/real-disasters-flints-water-crisis) By Carlos Martín at the Urban Institute **3\.** [**Why aren’t attacks on civilians part of the Syria peace talks?**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/syria-peace-end-civilian-atrocities-by-kenneth-roth-2016-01) By Kenneth Roth at Project Syndicate **4\.** [**Americans are bargaining away their innocence.**](http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/americans-are-bargaining-away-their-innocence) By Tim Lynch at the Cato Institute **5\.** [**This open-source tool can detect sarcasm online. Really.**](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/snark-attack-cornell-students-teach-software-to-detect-sarcasm/) By Sean Gallagher at Ars Technica  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Why It's Time to Rethink the Fire Truck ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4190003/rethink-fire-truck/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4190003/rethink-fire-truck/"},"headline":"Why It's Time to Rethink the Fire Truck","datePublished":"2016-01-22T17:01:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:33.933Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4190003/rethink-fire-truck/","keywords":["Innovation","Syria","Flint"],"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/4190003/rethink-fire-truck/","name":"Why It's Time to Rethink the Fire Truck"}}]}] ```