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On a related note to my last post, you’ve probably heard that the Pope recently took a bold step forward into the 21st century by joining Twitter. This is significant […]

John Seely Brown argues that foregrounding the Humanities is our only hope of sustaining innovation in the United States.

In times of unprecedented change and uncertainty, we need to ask ourselves what are we certain about?

We may not yet possess those cool transparent computers they have on CSI, but we live in a science fiction fantasy world of seamless information exchange, one in which even […]

“Now” trends are those with high energy and can be leveraged in the present; “Next” trends will begin to manifest towards the end of 2013 and gain traction through 2014; “Future” trends are fringe signals that will play out in 2015 and beyond.

To combat a decline in the number of computer science graduates, Microsoft is putting software engineers to work as teachers as part of its Technology Education and Literacy In Schools program.

A new report from some of Britain’s leading institutions warns of the implications involved in a “superhuman” workplace where productivity enhancements are encouraged…or required.

In order to make a cloud computing network more secure, DeTron is introducing its new QDK chip that cuts out any third party between sender and receiver.

With car’s on-board computer systems become more complex it was only time before they started receiving online updates, the same as a laptop or cell phone.

“Oy vey!” a Big Think blogger wrote to me yesterday. “Is BigThink.com down?” Oy yey, indeed it was. And we certainly weren’t alone.  Amazon in recent years has moved beyond […]

The first-ever study of climate change’s impact on wild coffee crops shows that Coffea arabica, prized for its genetic diversity, could be extinct within 70 years.

At this week’s Body Computing Conference, one team of researchers is unveiling a car with special sensors that monitor its driver’s health and habits.

Jaron Lanier: if we don’t learn to acknowledge that real people are actually creating the value online, we’re never going to learn how to create the information economy that can really create employment and self-determination. 

We live in an amazing era of technology-driven transformation that’s redefining how we sell, market, communicate, collaborate, innovate, train, and educate—all in an amazingly short period of time. With that […]

We have a background assumption that we are living in a technologically-accelerating civilization. Peter Thiel has a different view of where we are headed, and he says we need to fight hard to improve our future prospects. 

I just came across a blog post where the author put the One Laptop Per Child computer on the Deathwatch.The crux of the post is that XO laptops, with great […]

Our prehistoric ancestors are the ones who did the heavy mental lifting for which we owe our expanded frontal cortexes. So who has the right brain for today?  

The Raspberry Pi, a kind of hobbyist-kit computer, is poised to increase hardware and software skills for kids and adults in both developed and developing countries.

A professor has over 100,000 titles available on Amazon UK, all of them “written” by — not “with the help of”, but “by” — software he created.

A new website, ipaidabribe.or.ke, allows Kenyans to report bribes they have paid in order to help end the cycle of corruption that runs rampant throughout the country.

Fellow pseudonymous neuroblogger Neuroskeptic(to whom I owe a great deal in inspiration) has published a fantastic piece in Trends in Cognitive Sciences ($) on the benefits to science of anonymity. Last November Neuroskeptic became […]

A restaurant check wallet currently being road-tested comes with its own mini-computer, letting patrons pay with a credit card right at the table.

A Swedish startup launched a Kickstarter project today to raise money to help bring its “lapel-camera” to market by early next year.

Have you gotten a measure of your attention skills on a site like Lumosity?  Has a physician recommended that your elderly parent give software like BrainHQ a try? Then you are already part of the booming Digital Brain Health market . . .

According to Jeff DeGraff, half of the challenge for innovators “is having the courage, the temerity, the will to actually stop doing something, which is infinitely harder than starting something new.”

Today’s business climate calls for decisions to be made faster than ever. Big data can help managers achieve that while creating a positive culture of transparency and innovation. 

In September of 1965, Life magazine ran a piece on medicine’s “astonishing” and “audacious experiments” that might even promise a “kind of immortality.” The first article dealt with reproduction. The […]

Due to shortages, some schools are turning to Khan Academy, the free online education site, to provide students with lessons.

Country motto: Don’t do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Aren’t we all honorary citizens?