--- --- # Why You Can't Fix Your iPhone — or Anything Else by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 24, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 24, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**This is why we don’t fix anything anymore.**](http://blogs.wgbh.org/innovation-hub/2016/2/19/weins-repair/) By Marc Sollinger in the Innovation Hub **2\.** [**Here’s how forest loss is triggering a surge in human disease.**](http://e360.yale.edu/feature/how%5Fforest%5Floss%5Fis%5Fleading%5Fto%5Fa%5Frise%5Fin%5Fhuman%5Fdisease%5Fmalaria%5Fzika%5Fclimate%5Fchange/2965/) By Jim Robbins in Yale Environment 360 **3\.** [**The U.S. did a lot to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan, but it couldn’t beat opium.**](http://warisboring.com/articles/how-a-pink-flower-defeated-the-worlds-sole-superpower/) By Alfred McCoy in War is Boring **4\.** [**Business Improvement Districts — BIDs — make neighborhoods less equal and less diverse.**](https://newrepublic.com/article/130188/business-improvement-districts-ruin-neighborhoods) By Max Rivlin-Nadler in the New Republic **5\.** [**Would bench seating make air travel better — or much worse?**](http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/23/aviation/airbus-patent-could-bench-obese-passengers/index.html) By Daisy Carrington at CNN  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Why You Can't Fix Your iPhone — or Anything Else ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4235264/cant-fix-your-iphone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4235264/cant-fix-your-iphone/"},"headline":"Why You Can't Fix Your iPhone — or Anything Else","datePublished":"2016-02-24T17:01:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:21.578Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4235264/cant-fix-your-iphone/","keywords":["Innovation","Afghanistan","Inequality","iPhone","Travel"],"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/4235264/cant-fix-your-iphone/","name":"Why You Can't Fix Your iPhone — or Anything Else"}}]}] ```