--- --- # Our Wifi Signal Will Be Faster and Travel on Light by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 20, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 20, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**In the future, our wifi signal will be 100 times faster and travel on light.**](https://www.tue.nl/en/university/news-and-press/news/17-03-2017-wi-fi-on-rays-of-light-100-times-faster-and-never-overloaded/#top) By the _Eindhoven University of Technology_ **2\.** [**Are the millions of young men missing from the workforce playing video games?**](https://www.1843magazine.com/features/escape-to-another-world) By Ryan Avent in _1843_ **3\.** [**Children who play outside become adults who work to protect nature.**](https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2017/03/17/children-who-play-outside-more-likely-to-protect-nature-as-adults/) By Patty Wellborn at the _University of British Columbia_ **4\.** [**Your favorite candy bar is responsible for deforestation. Now big chocolate is taking action.**](https://qz.com/935514/chocolate-companies-nestle-nsrgy-mars-mondelez-mdlz-cargill-are-working-together-to-cut-back-on-deforestation/) By Chase Purdy in _Quartz_ **5\.** [**We’re hard-wired to consume, and it’s hurting the planet.**](https://hbr.org/2017/03/our-brains-love-new-stuff-and-its-killing-the-planet) By Ann-Christine Duhaime in the _Harvard Business Review_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas: Our Wifi Signals Will Be Faster ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4706530/our-wifi-signal-will-be-faster-and-travel-on-light/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4706530/our-wifi-signal-will-be-faster-and-travel-on-light/"},"headline":"Our Wifi Signal Will Be Faster and Travel on Light","datePublished":"2017-03-20T16:00:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:59.778Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4706530/our-wifi-signal-will-be-faster-and-travel-on-light/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Environment","Innovation","earth","WiFi","workforce","Deforestation"],"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/4706530/our-wifi-signal-will-be-faster-and-travel-on-light/","name":"Our Wifi Signal Will Be Faster and Travel on Light"}}]}] ```