By Jessie Levin (PO’ 18) Introduction: Imagine a world where illnesses do not exist and where parents can dictate the specific traits that they want for their future children. Although this world seems like it is thousands of years away, the technology to bring this to fruition is here. If a parent wanted to design a baby with perfect teeth, green eyes, and resistance to dementia, they...
By Jessie Levin (PO ’18) As a future which includes autonomous cars becomes a reality, the manner in which car accidents are handled will need to be reworked. On March 18th, 2018, a woman walking her bike along the the road in Tempe, Arizona was killed when she was hit by an autonomous Uber. Despite the fact that the Uber had a human in the driver’s seat as an extra precaution...
By Jessie Levin (PO ’18), Staff Writer If you are like the average American, you probably spent forty-two hours of your year sitting in traffic.[1] Via a simple, back of the envelope calculation, this results in eighty days stuck in traffic during an average person’s working years. Of course, these numbers are averages and do not fully show the full picture of commuters in densely populated...
