--- title: Five Best: It’s Time For Holiday Shopping Season to Go description: It’s time for the holiday shopping season to go, how online dating has increased interracial marriage and more. canonical: https://time.com/4979426/its-time-for-holiday-shopping-season-to-go/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-12T16:00:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:24.693Z article:section: Ideas og:title: It’s Time For Holiday Shopping Season to Go og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4979426/its-time-for-holiday-shopping-season-to-go/ 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: It’s Time For Holiday Shopping Season to Go 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 --- # It’s Time For Holiday Shopping Season to Go by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 12, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 12, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**It’s time for the holiday shopping season to go.**](https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-retailers-should-retire-holiday-shopping-season) By Denise Lee Yohn in _Harvard Business Review_ **2\.** [**How online dating has increased interracial marriage — and might be changing marriage all together.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609091/first-evidence-that-online-dating-is-changing-the-nature-of-society/) By Emerging Technology from the _arXiv_ **3\.** [**Our driverless future will depend on humans making real maps of the nation’s roads.**](https://www.wired.com/story/your-next-gig-map-the-streets-for-self-driving-cars/) By Steven Levy in Backchannel by _Wired_ **4\.** [**The future of ground warfare — armed robots — could be fighting in Ukraine by next year.**](http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/10/armed-ground-robots-could-make-their-combat-debut-ukrainian-conflict-next-year/141677/) By Patrick Tucker at _DefenseOne_ **5\.** [**Wikipedia is the world’s most viewed medical resource. Doctors should be updating it.**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/10/updating-wikipedia-part-doctors-jobs/) By Gwinyai Masukume, Lisa Kipersztok, Thomas Shafee, Diptanshu Das, and James Heilman in _STAT News_  [_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/4979426/its-time-for-holiday-shopping-season-to-go/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4979426/its-time-for-holiday-shopping-season-to-go/"},"headline":"It’s Time For Holiday Shopping Season to Go","datePublished":"2017-10-12T16:00:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:24.693Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4979426/its-time-for-holiday-shopping-season-to-go/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Shopping","Innovation","Marriage","Wikipedia","driverless cars"],"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/4979426/its-time-for-holiday-shopping-season-to-go/","name":"It’s Time For Holiday Shopping Season to Go"}}]}] ```