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While the price will likely make this a choice between an interactive coffee table and a trip for 2 to Fiji, yesterday's announcement about the new...
In the first years after its founding in 1968, one of the biggest projects the Institute for the Future undertook was a study of online collaboration...
Technology Review has good coverage of a couple of NSF-funded networking platforms that are starting from scratch, thinking about how to build the...
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In the first years after its founding in 1968, one of the biggest projects the Institute for the Future undertook was a study of online collaboration...
As I was walking down the hill from Biopolis, I saw a little development between the Ministry of Education and the subway stop: several yellow...
As I was walking down the hill from Biopolis, I saw a little development between the Ministry of Education and the subway stop: several yellow...
I spent last week in Singapore, speaking at a conference on RFID in Asia, and visiting with various futures groups in the Singaporean government. But...
I spent last week in Singapore, speaking at a conference on RFID in Asia, and visiting with various futures groups in the Singaporean government. But...
The Health Horizons Spring Conference is May 23-24 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA! ...
The full report is not yet out, but there are some good PDF's with statistical overviews on the growth of IT in the Chinese economy.Information &...
IEEE Spectrum has a good article bringing us up to date on some of the tech specs for the One Laptop Per Child prototype, the $100 (now $150) laptop...
A new study published this month in Nature Biotechnology looks at the innovative potential of health biotech firms in India.According to India's...
Terahertz wireless was a popular theme in our joint survey with IEEE last year. It's interesting too as a sort of end-state for the evolution of...
I noticed in this morning's Talking Points Memo a twist in the "he said, she said" swirling around the U.S. Attorney firings / resignations/...
John Thackara has a good send-up of the recent announcement by AMD and Architecture for Humanity's $250,000 contest for the design of technology...
During the opening of one episode of Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld told a joke about how a nature scene-- a lion hunting a gazelle-- would be spun by...
I noticed in this morning's Talking Points Memo a twist in the "he said, she said" swirling around the U.S. Attorney firings / resignations/...
This is a bit of an update of a 2006 article in GigaOm on cafes as the new garages, but still worth noting. Today's San Francisco Chronicle has a long...
You might classify this as a story about 1) the need to have a plan to smoothly bring backup computer systems online, or 2) a glimpse into what...
In environmental economics circles, one of the more famous graphs (and concepts) is the Economics Kuznets Curve. It's an inverse U-shape, and it...
I've recently been doing some work on the future of sustainability. The project is part intellectual history (how are people and organizations going...
Two recent developments in the world of abundant computing - Orion, which claims to be the world's first practical quantum computer was...