--- --- # It’s Now Possible to Hack Someone’s Muscles by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 20, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 20, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**It’s now possible to hack someone’s muscles.**](https://www.fastcodesign.com/90129925/its-now-possible-to-hack-someones-muscles-and-even-their-whole-body) By Mark Wilson in _Fast Co.Design_ **2\.** [**Newsrooms are missing a valuable opportunity to connect with new readers: America’s immigrants.**](https://medium.com/@madbair/the-news-deserts-in-immigrant-communities-1e8bf406cdf7?curator=MediaREDEF) By Madeleine Bair in _Medium_ **3\.** [**Will social media, by revealing everything, snuff out the need for novels?**](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/17/privacy-literature-social-media-andrew-ohagan) By Andrew O’Hagan in the _Guardian_ **4\.** [**Tech startups were supposed to save cities from urban decline. Now they’re tearing those cities apart.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607957/the-unaffordable-urban-paradise/?set=608137) By JRichard Florida in _MIT Technology Review_ **5\.** [**What if hydrogen — a powerful alternative fuel — could be easily pulled from the air?**](https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2017/jun/solar-paint-offers-endless-energy-from-water-vapour) By David Glanz at _RMIT University_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: It’s Now Possible to Hack Someone’s Muscles ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4824951/its-now-possible-to-hack-someones-muscles/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4824951/its-now-possible-to-hack-someones-muscles/"},"headline":"It’s Now Possible to Hack Someone’s Muscles","datePublished":"2017-06-20T16:00:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:44.950Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4824951/its-now-possible-to-hack-someones-muscles/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Internet","ISIS","Election","Library"],"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/4824951/its-now-possible-to-hack-someones-muscles/","name":"It’s Now Possible to Hack Someone’s Muscles"}}]}] ```