Category: Business & Economy

Cisco recently published a podcast that I had the opportunity to do for them, for their online project they call Connected Futures: Business Innovation Insights. The project involves podcasts, a magazine, and other online material. In this episode I joined Michael Wade – Professor...

I come across lists of emerging technologies all the time. This one, from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is particularly good. This institute was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James J. Hughes. The list of 7 technologies that...

It was not really that hard to foresee the decision announced by Shell Oil today that they are abandoning their efforts to drill for oil in the Arctic, namely in the Chukchi Sea. You might recall the controversy here in Seattle about the basing...

If this holds, solar will cost less than half what new coal or natural gas electricity cost, even without factoring in the cost of air pollution and carbon pollution emitted by fossil fuel power plants.

I do think that self driving cars and vehicles are part of a preferred future. I particularly like Google’s approach, which is to eliminate the idea of human driving altogether, getting rid of steering wheels and brake pedals. This video illustrates. Notice in particular...