--- --- # Stop Using Your Debit Card by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 21, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 21, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Stop using your debit card.**](http://theweek.com/articles/655346/why-should-think-twice-before-using-debit-card) By Alexis Boncy in the Week **2\.** [**‘Citizen journalism’ is a disaster. Can it be saved?**](http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/10/citizen-journalism-is-a-catastrophe-itll-only-get-worse.html) By Jesse Singal in Select All **3\.** [**Imagine how good your food will be — and you might eat less.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/10/how-to-trick-yourself-into-choosing-smaller-portion-sizes.html) By Cari Romm in the Science of Us **4\.** [**Robot avatars could help us ‘visit’ other planets.**](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161018-will-the-first-tourists-on-mars-be-robot-avatars) By Zaria Gorvett in BBC Future **5\.** [**Will we someday take a DNA test to get a job?**](http://www.computerworld.com/article/3132477/it-careers/dna-testing-for-jobs-may-be-on-its-way-warns-gartner.html) By Patrick Thibodeau in ComputerWorld  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Stop Using Your Debit Card ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4540387/stop-using-your-debit-card/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4540387/stop-using-your-debit-card/"},"headline":"Stop Using Your Debit Card","datePublished":"2016-10-21T16:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:24.304Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4540387/stop-using-your-debit-card/","keywords":["Innovation","Food","Space","DNA","Journalism","finance"],"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/4540387/stop-using-your-debit-card/","name":"Stop Using Your Debit Card"}}]}] ```