Our use of data is subject to what we call the "drunk under the streetlamp" problem: An obviously intoxicated man is on his hands and knees on the sidewalk, under a streetlamp.

The concept of Mobility as a Service (or MaaS) is well known in the transit industry.

Much of the attention around Elon Musk’s bid to take Tesla private has been focused on whether the funding — as Musk tweeted early this month — is actually "secured."

Western society looks at insects as vermin that lurk in the dark and spread disease.

Synthetic plastics have made many aspects of modern life cheaper, safer and more convenient. However, we have failed to figure out how to get rid of them after we use them.

Cities consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy and account for more than 70 percent of global CO2 emissions, while occupying only 2 percent of its land area.

Companies are paying millions of dollars to hire self-driving vehicle engineers. But it’s the designers — developing the experience around the interaction between vehicles and humans — who could be the key to how smoothly (or not) autonomous vehicles enter society.

Is this the decade when we solve ocean plastic — or repeat the mistakes of the past?

The U.S. economy has been on one of the longest bull runs in history, but with mostly stagnant wage growth, rising interest rates and record-high asset prices across all asset classes, it’s poised for a potential fall.