Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 21, 2017 - The Aspen Institute

Wedding inflation is out of control.

Piper Black at Ozy
The age of laser weapons is here.

Jim Sciutto and Dominique van Heerden at CNN
Could robots ever serve as teachers?

Tyler Cowen in Bloomberg View
Burnout at work isn’t just about exhaustion. It’s also about feeling lonely.

Emma Seppala and Marissa King in the Harvard Business Review
As an escape, as a news source, as a way to measure ourselves against others, Twitter is giving us anxiety.

Laura Turner in the Atlantic