--- title: The Next President Will Face a Cyber Crisis Within the First 100 Days description: The next president will face a cyber crisis within their first 100 days, who should make decisions about the public’s welfare and more. canonical: https://time.com/4554676/the-next-president-will-face-a-cyber-crisis-within-the-first-100-days/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-02T16:00:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:22.441Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Next President Will Face a Cyber Crisis Within 100 Days og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4554676/the-next-president-will-face-a-cyber-crisis-within-the-first-100-days/ 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: The Next President Will Face a Cyber Crisis Within 100 Days twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Next President Will Face a Cyber Crisis Within the First 100 Days by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 2, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 2, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The next president will face a cyber crisis within their first 100 days.**](http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/31/the-next-president-will-face-a-cybercrisis-within-100-days-predicts-report.html) By Harriet Taylor at CNBC **2\.** [**If most voters are uninformed, who should make decisions about the public’s welfare?**](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/07/the-case-against-democracy) By Caleb Crain in the New Yorker **3\.** [**The Trump campaign’s crusade against political correctness might end up saving it.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-has-made-political-correctness-credible-again/2016/11/01/0f397c0c-9fb1-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06%5Fstory.html) By Barton Swaim in the Washington Post **4\.** [**America needs India’s rockets.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-01/why-america-needs-india-s-rockets) By Adam Minter in Bloomberg View **5\.** [**How ‘Frankenstein’ can help future leaders set science policy, if we let it.**](http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/10/27/frankenstein-great-science-policy-guide-future/ideas/nexus/) By Joey Eschrich in Zócalo Public Square  [_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/4554676/the-next-president-will-face-a-cyber-crisis-within-the-first-100-days/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4554676/the-next-president-will-face-a-cyber-crisis-within-the-first-100-days/"},"headline":"The Next President Will Face a Cyber Crisis Within the First 100 Days","datePublished":"2016-11-02T16:00:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:22.441Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4554676/the-next-president-will-face-a-cyber-crisis-within-the-first-100-days/","keywords":["Innovation","India","Science topic"],"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/4554676/the-next-president-will-face-a-cyber-crisis-within-the-first-100-days/","name":"The Next President Will Face a Cyber Crisis Within the First 100 Days"}}]}] ```