Technology & Innovation — July 7, 2010

Information Technology in 2050 (SMITHSONIAN)

Director of the Information Policy Research Center, National University of Singapore

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Will we become a couch-potato society of information consumers, or will we be empowered, motivated and active?

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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Are you a workaholic? How to spot the signs

In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.

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The Future

NASA medical officer on spending 378 days in a Mars simulation

“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”

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Business

The trillion-dollar AI race to create “Digital God”

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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Business

How to “day trade” attention: 5 key digital branding strategies

Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, explains how to find branding success by making “boulders” out of “pebbles.”

Starts With A Bang

Official verdict: JWST’s early galaxies didn’t break cosmology

The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.

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