--- title: Five Best Ideas: U.S. May Miss Next Industrial Revolution description: America may miss out on the next industrial revolution, ‘diversity debt’ is threatening Uber and more. canonical: https://time.com/4705069/america-may-miss-out-on-the-next-industrial-revolution/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-17T16:00:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:59.868Z article:section: Ideas og:title: America May Miss Out on the Next Industrial Revolution og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4705069/america-may-miss-out-on-the-next-industrial-revolution/ 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: America May Miss Out on the Next Industrial Revolution twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # America May Miss Out on the Next Industrial Revolution by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 17, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 17, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**America may miss out on the next industrial revolution.**](http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/15/14935360/automation-robots-ai-manufacturing-future-sxsw-2017) By Nick Statt in the _Verge_ **2\.** [**‘Diversity debt’ is threatening Uber and could sink other startups.**](https://backchannel.com/welcome-to-diversity-debt-the-crisis-that-could-sink-uber-df0165cccf77#.kuzpz5srf) By Susan Wu in _Backchannel_ **3\.** [**Big data is changing everything. Is psychotherapy next?**](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/what-your-therapist-doesnt-know/517797/) By Tony Rousmaniere in the _Atlantic_ **4\.** [**Nature stops caring about us once we’re past child-bearing age. This is why.**](http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/why-evolution-is-ageist) By Amy Maxmen in _Nautilus_ **5\.** [**Why do we swear?**](http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39082467) By David Edmonds at the _BBC_  [_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/4705069/america-may-miss-out-on-the-next-industrial-revolution/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4705069/america-may-miss-out-on-the-next-industrial-revolution/"},"headline":"America May Miss Out on the Next Industrial Revolution","datePublished":"2017-03-17T16:00:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:59.868Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4705069/america-may-miss-out-on-the-next-industrial-revolution/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Data topic","Evolution","language","Startups","Industry"],"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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4705069/america-may-miss-out-on-the-next-industrial-revolution/","name":"America May Miss Out on the Next Industrial Revolution"}}]}] ```