Industrial Technology

What was once considered fallout of late 20th-century capitalism—the ever-widening gulf between the rich and the poor—has spun out into a much more complex global issue, one that the International Monetary Fund last month called “the defining challenge of our time” as it released a comprehensive global study that explains some of the reasons why.

Today, United Airlines grounded all its domestic flights over an “automation issue” with its computer system. United had to ground its domestic fleet last month, too. Passengers aboard affected flights indicated then that it had to do with bad flight plans being automatically uploaded to pilots.

Eero Saarinen's mid-century masterpiece on Yale's campus has been sensitively restored by his protégés.

Subway Symphony would replace irksome sounds of turnstiles with something more like wind chimes than the drone of a droid.