--- description: This technology could make ships invisible in the water, America does have military options for North Korea and more. title: This Technology Could Make Ships Invisible in the Water image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Five Best Ideas](/tag/five-best-ideas/) ## Five Best Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Technology Could Make Ships Invisible in the Water by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 9, 2018 5:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 9, 2018 5:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Could this technology make ships ‘invisible’ in the water?**](https://pratt.duke.edu/news/water-cloak "undefined") 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 "undefined") 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 "undefined") 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 "undefined") 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 "undefined") By Brian Payne at the _Chronicle of Higher Education_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _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"}}]}] ```