--- title: Why the Deep Seas Will Host Future Conflicts description: The deepest oceans may be the next frontier for global conflict, colleges don’t know how to prepare their leaders and more. canonical: https://time.com/4448209/why-the-deep-seas-will-host-future-conflicts/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-11T16:00:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:36.488Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why the deep seas will host future conflicts og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4448209/why-the-deep-seas-will-host-future-conflicts/ 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: Why the deep seas will host future conflicts twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why the Deep Seas Will Host Future Conflicts by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 11, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 11, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The deepest oceans may be the next frontier for global conflict.**](https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2016/08/deep-trouble-emerging-resource-competition-deep-sea/) By Scott Moore and Dale Squires in New Security Beat **2\.** [**Colleges don’t know how to prepare their leaders.**](http://chronicle.com/article/How-Colleges-Prepare-or/237368) By Jeffrey J. Selingo in the Chronicle of Higher Education **3\.** [**Forget solar panels. You could have a solar roof.**](http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-envisions-solar-roofs-powering-homes-n627481?cid=sm%5Ftw) By Alyssa Newcomb at NBC News **4\.** [**Pursue strategic mediocrity.**](https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-useful-thing-you-know-that-most-people-do-wrong/answer/Sandra-Naylor) By Sandra Naylor in Quora **5\.** [**Self-driving cars will improve our cities — if they don’t ruin them.**](https://backchannel.com/self-driving-cars-will-improve-our-cities-if-they-dont-ruin-them-2dc920345618#.of8msdb2t) By Robin Chase in Backchannel  [_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/4448209/why-the-deep-seas-will-host-future-conflicts/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4448209/why-the-deep-seas-will-host-future-conflicts/"},"headline":"Why the Deep Seas Will Host Future Conflicts","datePublished":"2016-08-11T16:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:36.488Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4448209/why-the-deep-seas-will-host-future-conflicts/","keywords":["Innovation","College","Ocean","self-driving cars"],"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/4448209/why-the-deep-seas-will-host-future-conflicts/","name":"Why the Deep Seas Will Host Future Conflicts"}}]}] ```