--- title: Five Best: Your Face Could Replace Your Airplane Ticket description: Your face or your fingerprint could soon replace your airplane ticket, partisanship has ruined good policy and more. canonical: https://time.com/4802951/your-face-or-fingerprint-could-replace-your-airplane-ticket/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-02T16:00:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:47.304Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Your Face or Fingerprint Could Replace Your Airplane Ticket og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4802951/your-face-or-fingerprint-could-replace-your-airplane-ticket/ 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: Your Face or Fingerprint Could Replace Your Airplane Ticket 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 --- # Your Face or Fingerprint Could Replace Your Airplane Ticket by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 2, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 2, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Your face or your fingerprint could soon replace your airplane ticket.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/06/01/your-face-or-fingerprint-could-soon-replace-your-plane-ticket/?utm%5Fterm=.6b82f4c4a948) By Hayley Tsukayama in the _Washington Post_ **2\.** [**Thirty years ago, we could have kept the Paris Agreement. Partisanship has ruined good policy.**](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-paris-climate-agreement/) By Maggie Koerth-Baker in _FiveThirtyEight_ **3\.** [**This is why nobody makes phone calls anymore, and why it’s ok to start.**](https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/6/1/15701126/phone-calls-texts-communication-friendship) By Kate Shellnutt in _Vox_ **4\.** [**As Trump turns away from Europe, China sees an opportunity.**](http://www.politico.eu/article/in-the-age-of-trump-beijing-pivots-to-europe/) By Stephan Faris and Charles Lee in _Politico Europe_ **5\.** [**The Supreme Court just made sure you control consumer goods you buy — not the manufacturer.**](https://www.wired.com/2017/06/impression-v-lexmark/) By Kyle Wiens in _Wired_  [_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/4802951/your-face-or-fingerprint-could-replace-your-airplane-ticket/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4802951/your-face-or-fingerprint-could-replace-your-airplane-ticket/"},"headline":"Your Face or Fingerprint Could Replace Your Airplane Ticket","datePublished":"2017-06-02T16:00:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:47.304Z","description":"Here are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4802951/your-face-or-fingerprint-could-replace-your-airplane-ticket/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Supreme Court","Innovation","Technology","policy","China","Phone"],"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/4802951/your-face-or-fingerprint-could-replace-your-airplane-ticket/","name":"Your Face or Fingerprint Could Replace Your Airplane Ticket"}}]}] ```