Institute For The Future

I've spent a day at the Where 2.0 conference on geospatial technology and media, which Technology Horizons researcher Mike Liebhold spoke at...

I've spent most of last week and this working on an event I'm leading next week, two days of technology roadmapping and scenario planning. I've...

Nanotubes for clean water

"According to the World Health Organization, 1.1 billion people around the world lack access to safe water. Dirty drinking water is to blame for...

Science textbooks of the Future

In a recent Nature story, we see hints to the demise of science textbooks.

"I was stuck by an article in The Wall Street Journal about the extend of love connections among characters playing massive multiplayer online games...

Cities That Live?

We had a fascinating presentation from Drew Endy of MIT's Biological Engineering Division, which was "founded in 1998 as a new MIT departmental...

a conference for anyone who will be around Boston next week and is interested in identity systems. Click here for the conference...

Identity Management for Kids

Reading today's article in the New York Times about potential employers and college admissions people going through Myspace and Friendster sites to...

Genetics Causes Half Of Entrepreneurship

Randall Parker of FuturePundit discusses a research study that looks at genetics and entrepreneurship in this post....

Same-Language Subtitling organization given Google Grant

via GoogleBlog,...

One of the great unwritten history of technology stories is the biography of the Post-It. (By "biography" I mean its invention; its subsequent use,...

You never know what will serve as the source for some illuminating (or at least entertaining) metaphor. For example, Stephen Colbert's graduation...

I've spent most of last week and this working on an event I'm leading next week, two days of technology roadmapping and scenario planning. I've...

Software and the Personality of Buildings

I am writing up some scenarios for the future of "abundant computing" as Mike Liebhold has started calling the future of grid and desktop...

Hyperlinked society

A cool-looking conference at the Annenberg School this weekend....The Hyperlinked SocietyMost internet users know hyperlinks as highlighted words on a...

Fingertip magnet implants

"If you were able to make the Technology Horizons conference recently, you may have met Quinn Norton, a blogger and journalist who also happens to be...

The June 2006 Harvard Business Review brings us an article on Avatar-based Marketing....

Amartya Sen on Indian Identity

We have been looking at the issue of identity for our Global ethnographic work in the BRIC countries. I just finished reading Amartya...

Wall-socket PC

I found this new device very interesting for home owners; a thin-client wall-socket PC (Jack PC) that will fit into standard sized wall sockets, and...

Mobility Maps

WorldMapper has just released a series of global visualizations of interesting human, economic, and commodity flows. These maps tie to some of the...

Light vs Mega Infrastructure

alex and i were talking before the conference and thought that next years' theme might be mega-infrastructure...

Collaborative mapping revisited

Gliffy is an online collaborative mapping tool that beats CMap, which I posted here a few weeks ago. ...

Virtual ecology

"Second Life resident "Laujosargas Svarog" has created an self-contained functioning ecosystem within the virtual world. The system includes computer...

Squid Labs: Lightweight Infrastucture Skunkworks

Eric Wilhelm of Emeryville, CA startup Squid Labs gave a talk at our TEchn Horizons exchange last week. He presented many projects that show how the...