Ed Finn

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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.

Mar 8, 2023 | theindependent.ca | Ed Finn |Sarah Swain

The histories of Indigenous peoples across Canada have been repeatedly told and studied from a settler-colonial perspective. This is in part because the historical narrative has been informed by the archival record created and maintained by European settlers. Thus, the voices of Indigenous peoples have been omitted from the archival record for centuries.

Mar 1, 2023 | slate.com | Ed Finn

As a child of the ’80s, I can divide my life cleanly into Before Google and After Google. Right around the turn of the millennium, the internet stopped being a tangled thicket of incomplete lists of weird stuff and became a useful research database. Ever since, Google Search has been one of the only technological constants of my adult life, persisting through the rise of smartphones, social media, streaming services, and even drone-based burrito delivery (also, what happened to that?).