During his landmark visit last month to Hiroshima, Japan, President Barack Obama declared that "technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us".
Though he was reflecting on nuclear weapons and presenting a vision for a more peaceful future – "a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of atomic warfare but as the start of our own moral awakening" – Obama's reflections on institutions' sluggish response to technological change could serve as a useful coda to documentarian Alex Gibney's new film, Zero Days.
Foreign Policy