Category: Business & Economy

Few fields offer so much promise to leverage new knowledge and technology than does medicine and health care. Progress can still be slow and frustrating, but there are tremendous breakthroughs occurring in our understanding of genetics and of the brain. Lundbeck, a Copenhagen-based pharma...

I had the opportunity to keynote the annual Landmark Solutions Innovation Forum and Expo. Landmark, a Halliburton business line, is the leading technology solutions provider of data and analytics, science, software, and services for the exploration and development of energy. In the speech I...

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...