--- title: Five Best: The Future of Work is Remote description: The future of work is remote, ‘instantly rechargeable’ batteries could change the future of electric vehicles and more. canonical: https://time.com/4805265/the-future-of-work-is-remote/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-05T16:00:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:47.134Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Future of Work is Remote og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4805265/the-future-of-work-is-remote/ 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 Future of Work is Remote 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 --- # The Future of Work is Remote by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 5, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 5, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The future of work is remote.**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-remote-work-cant-be-stopped-1496577602) By Christopher Mims in the Wall Street Journal **2\.** [**‘Instantly rechargeable’ batteries could change the future of electric vehicles.**](https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2017/Q2/instantly-rechargeable-battery-could-change-the-future-of-electric-and-hybrid-automobiles.html) By Cynthia Sequin at the _Purdue News Service_ **3\.** [**What if you could turn off your allergies with gene therapy?**](https://www.uq.edu.au/news/node/120582) By the _University of Queensland_ **4\.** [**The future of Twitter might be as a user-owned co-op.**](https://www.salon.com/2017/06/04/meet-the-tech-activists-who-want-to-turn-twitter-into-a-user-owned-co-op/) By Angelo Young in _Salon_ **5\.** [**Facebook is broken: The very thing that makes it special also makes it worse.**](https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/04/when-you-look-into-the-news-feed-the-news-feed-looks-into-you/) By Jon Evans in _TechCrunch_  [_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/4805265/the-future-of-work-is-remote/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4805265/the-future-of-work-is-remote/"},"headline":"The Future of Work is Remote","datePublished":"2017-06-05T16:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:47.134Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4805265/the-future-of-work-is-remote/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","facebook","twitter","allergies","productivity","electric vehicles"],"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/4805265/the-future-of-work-is-remote/","name":"The Future of Work is Remote"}}]}] ```