Ed Finn

Jan 30, 2025 | science.org | Ed Finn

Jan 13, 2025 | issues.org | Ed Finn |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

Science fiction is one of the best tools we have for staging inclusive, engaging conversations about science and technology policy. How can we make better use of it? Aliens! Killer robots! Spaceships! For a long time, I saw science fiction stories in a fairly conventional way—as a touchstone or a starting point for a conversation about a topic such as artificial intelligence (Terminator or I, Robot) or genetic engineering (Gattaca or Frankenstein).

Jan 24, 2024 | wsj.com | Ed Finn

In 2020 President Donald Trump predicted that the stock market would collapse if Joe Biden was elected president. Mr. Trump was way off the mark. The S&P 500 rose 27.4% during Mr. Biden’s first three years in office. This healthy market performance came despite the Covid pandemic and wars in Israel and Ukraine—not to mention China’s menacing military activity around Taiwan.