--- title: Five Best: Technology Could Make Ships Invisible in Water description: This technology could make ships invisible in the water, America does have military options for North Korea and more. canonical: https://time.com/5094882/this-technology-could-make-ships-invisible-in-the-water/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-09T17:00:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:14.295Z article:section: Ideas og:title: This Technology Could Make Ships Invisible in the Water og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5094882/this-technology-could-make-ships-invisible-in-the-water/ 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: This Technology Could Make Ships Invisible in the Water 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 --- # This Technology Could Make Ships Invisible in the Water by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 9, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 9, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Could this technology make ships ‘invisible’ in the water?**](https://pratt.duke.edu/news/water-cloak) By Ken Kingery at the _Duke University Pratt School of Engineering_ **2\.** [**America does have military options for North Korea (but they’re all bad).**](http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-has-military-options-north-korea-theyre-all-bad-23940) By Michael O’Hanlon in the _National Interest_ **3\.** [**We need to expand, not restrict, access to housing assistance. Here’s why.**](https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/why-we-need-expand-not-restrict-access-housing-assistance) By Susan J. Popkin, Samantha Batko and Corianne Scally at the _Urban Institute_ **4\.** [**Facebook and Google are free. They shouldn’t be.**](http://theweek.com/articles/746872/facebook-google-are-free-shouldnt) By Jeff Spross in the _Week_ **5\.** [**How to reach out to first-generation students.**](https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Reach-Out-to/242168) By Brian Payne at the _Chronicle of Higher Education_  [_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/5094882/this-technology-could-make-ships-invisible-in-the-water/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5094882/this-technology-could-make-ships-invisible-in-the-water/"},"headline":"This Technology Could Make Ships Invisible in the Water","datePublished":"2018-01-09T17:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:14.295Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5094882/this-technology-could-make-ships-invisible-in-the-water/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Social Media","North Korea","Innovation","Education","Technology","housing"],"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/5094882/this-technology-could-make-ships-invisible-in-the-water/","name":"This Technology Could Make Ships Invisible in the Water"}}]}] ```