Category: Science & Tech

A few months ago I sat in a Starbucks drinking coffee, and as is sometimes the way in coffee shops, I couldn’t help but overhear a conversation at the table next to me. An earnest young man was actively working to recruit a young...

A headline article in the Seattle Times today suggested that cloned food is near FDA-approval. The food is apparently testing safe, and astonishly similar to non-cloned food. Which isn’t exactly surprising if you understand the science behind cloning. It probably won’t hurt us in...

Be sure to watch or set your Tivo to see Futurist.com colleage and guest writer David Brin in the premier of “The ArchiTechs.” In the premier, this unique program sets five geniuses in a 48-hour quest to design a better way to escape and...

Introduction: Why the experiment? As a futurist and a CIO, I’m expected to stay up to date on new technologies. I’ve attended talks on the digital divides (there’s one between the rich and poor, but another one entirely between the young and the old)....

A few years ago when I was invited to speak to a Microsoft customer event, one of the speakers was from Microsoft Research. He previewed a number of research initiatives. In doing so he had fun with a slide in which he listed major...