The New Urban Order

Will the Key to Climate Resilience be AI — or Dopamine?

A tech summit in New York City this week explored how AI can help cities survive — and even thrive — during climate change

By Diana Lind
Ideas We Should Steal

Fix the Damn Potholes … with AI

Vialytics is user-friendly software that quickly identifies and maps potholes, sinkholes and other roadway problems. Could the app fix Philly streets — or would our City simply run a pilot and then throw it away?

By Courtney DuChene
The Citizen Recommends

Text Your Friends, Get Out the Vote

Who among your friends is a voter — and who is not? A new tech platform helps you find out, and gives tips on how to nudge them to the polls. What are you waiting for?

By Natalie Pompilio

Jurassic Park on the Schuylkill

Five million people around the world died from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections last year — a problem expected to multiply in the next several decades. Might a Penn scientist find an answer in our deep past?

By Malcolm Burnley
Business for Good

Carbon Reform

Could a Philadelphia company’s clever carbon capture capsule transform how buildings breathe — and impact climate change?

By Courtney DuChene

Teaching Tech

Artificial intelligence is changing how we work and teach. How do we find the path that’s just right for students?

By Marissa Biondi

Could Philly Become a City of Eds, Meds, Beds and … Gaming?

City Councilmember Isaiah Thomas and a local video game entrepreneur have teamed up on Philadelphia's second annual PHL Gaming Conference and Expo, an event The Citizen Recommends

By Christina Griffith
Business for Good

BioPhy Uses AI to Predict Life-Saving Medicines

The Philly company supported by Chelsea Clinton's venture capital firm offers a “GPS for Drug Development” that can boost the success rate of clinical trials and get treatments in the hands of patients who need them faster

By Malcolm Burnley
Guest Commentary

Keep Low Cost Internet … Low Cost

A local state rep urges the Biden administration to reject a proposal to eliminate a bulk billing provision that allows more low-income Philadelphians easy access to the web

By Rep. Jason Dawkins
Guest Commentary

Keep Tomorrow’s Innovators Local

A pair of tech educators urge city and business leaders to make Philly’s job market ready for young technologists — or risk losing them

By Danae Mobley and Maya Heiland