--- description: How to secure America's ballooning trove of classified documents, beating MS with stem cells and more. title: How to Keep a Billion Secrets Safe 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 # How to Keep a Billion Secrets Safe by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 13, 2016 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 13, 2016 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**45 years after the Pentagon Papers, how do we keep our billions of secrets safe?**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/45-years-after-the-pentagon-papers-a-new-challenge-to-government-secrecy/2016/06/12/dbbaad20-2ce6-11e6-b5db-e9bc84a2c8e4%5Fstory.html "undefined") By Sanford J. Ungar in the Washington Post **2\.** [**Using stem cells, scientists just made a breakthrough on another ‘incurable’ disease.**](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/06/09/multiple-sclerosis-patients-walking-working-and-skiing-after-gro/ "undefined") By Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph **3\.** [**What if PTSD is more than a psychological affliction?**](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/what-if-ptsd-is-more-physical-than-psychological.html "undefined") By Robert F. Worth in the New York Times Magazine **4\.** [**America’s manufacturing sector has one surprising problem: It’s creating too many jobs.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-10/the-end-of-the-u-s-manufacturing-renaissance-such-as-it-was "undefined") By Conor Sen in Bloomberg View **5\.** [**Are kids learning rudeness from talking to computers?**](http://qz.com/701521/parents-are-worried-the-amazon-echo-is-conditioning-their-kids-to-be-rude/ "undefined") By Alice Truong in Quartz  [_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/4366092/how-to-keep-a-billion-secrets-safe/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4366092/how-to-keep-a-billion-secrets-safe/"},"headline":"How to Keep a Billion Secrets Safe","datePublished":"2016-06-13T16:00:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:54.203Z","description":"These are the today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4366092/how-to-keep-a-billion-secrets-safe/","keywords":["Innovation","Jobs","PTSD","Security","AI"],"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/4366092/how-to-keep-a-billion-secrets-safe/","name":"How to Keep a Billion Secrets Safe"}}]}] ```