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The Old Answer to Humanity’s Newest Problem: Data

By Lev Grossman
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The Answers Issue For the rest of the Answers Issue, visit time.com/answers. The Second Age of Reason Information overload will improve our lives The Real Ice Bucket Challenge What’s harder than dumping freezing water on...

Are We There Yet?

The distances between Americans and some of their favorite (and not-so-favorite) destinations are shrinking

When Did Everything Become 'Epic'?

Slang terms like epic are almost always older than you think. Check out the first known use of the words that came to mean excellent

What Are We Doing with Our Lives?

From the price of having kids to the cost of becoming an adult, here's a closer look

IV. Questions We Should Be Asking

When will Congress reach gender parity?

Who Has the Most Cash?

Measured by cash hoard, it's Apple. Many corporate coffers dwarf those of countries

Who Will Choose the Next President?

The unmarried, if the demographic changes transforming the country continue. But which way you lean doesn't matter if you don't turn out

When Will China's Economy Overtake the U.S.'s?

The Eastern superpower will soon outshine the U.S. as the world's largest economy, though sometimes size isn't all that matters

III. Who We Are

The income gap is wider than ever. Climbing out of poverty is increasingly difficult, while corporate compensation is at an all-time high. From the richest to the poorest, this is what America's class system looks like today

Where Do Babies Come From?

More U.S. parents are adopting from Ethiopia and Uganda, although shifting laws mean that could change soon

By Kelly Conniff

The Second Age of Reason

Information overload will improve our lives

By Michael Grunwald

Are You Smarter Than a Teenager?

To find out, take this quiz with questions from the SAT, teen Jeopardy!, Oxford Dictionaries and more

What Do You Know?

It's an Irony of the second age of Reason, Michael Grunwald argues in his cover essay, that the abundance of data, the effervescence of sources and ease of delivery, makes so many more questions answerable...

By Nancy Gibbs

When Will Ocean City Be Under Water?

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's tidal stations, these 15 regions will see the highest rises in relative sea level over the next 100 years

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