Brenda’s previous blog rings true, and rather than adding a comment, let me add this way. The two major computing input forms, the qwerty keyboard and the mouse have been around since 1873 and 1981 respectively. Amazingly little has changed. Until now.
About five years ago at the University of Washington Human Interface [...]

In America, we are used to thinking of a balance of three powers: the legislature, the judiciary, and the executive. These are directly government, but if you think of government as power, think again. There are at least two other forces that matter as much.
Corporate influence is of particular [...]

There has been some recent and dramatic news on the subject of Peak Oil. Essentially, groups of scientists are beginning to more openly challenge the conventional industry assurances that oil has decades, and not years to run before a peak is reached.
This is critical, because the consequences of overestimating how long it will be [...]

Glen Hiemstra (that’s me) is among a few featured experts in a current article at MSNBC. In a story by Allison Linn, entitled “Big business in seeing the future of business,” I make comments on global warming and the future of autos. It is an extensive and interesting article, and good company to [...]

Our most recent question about the future is from Deb Palmer, of Washington State Dept of Natural Resources, who asks: “I’d be interested on your thoughts about the workforce—we’re starting to see shortages in some fields. The predictions are that the median age of the middle-class worker will continue to rise. What [...]

I noticed a CNN article about a Japanese robot serving tea today.
Bill Gates wrote an article about robotics that appeared in Scientific American in January, where he makes the case that robotics today is where PC manufacturing was about the time Bill Gates and others started Microsoft. I think he’s right, and [...]

Many of us detest clumsy advertising. Blinking banners on web sites, email that offers us things we neither need nor want, and intrusive ads on movie screens. But there is already some advertising out there that I’m starting to like. Google searches produce in-context ads that have, occasionally, proven useful. Amazon.com [...]