Smartphones Deliver Vital Public Services

1. Smartphones aren’t a luxury. They can deliver vital public services.

By Jack Karsten and Darrell M. West at the Brookings Institution

2. What if edible gene-editing tools could replace antibiotics?

By Emily Mullin in MIT Technology Review

3. Being happy has a cost: The case for being grumpy at work.

By Meredith Bennett-Smith in Quartz

4. Hate trying on clothes in a fitting room? Technology is here to help.

By Poornima Apte in Racked

5. How a global network of U.S.-run ‘charter cities’ can help fix America’s immigration system.

By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry in the Week

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