I’m an optimist, I really am, especially when it comes to technology and its ability to transform the world. But today I can’t shake the feeling that we as a species are really screwing up.... Read more
Can we devise strategies to maximize the upside of technology while minimizing the downside? We’re entering a new age in which countries, cities, corporations, and online communities all com... Read more
It could reduce by two-thirds the number of transistors needed IN A novel called “The Difference Engine”, published in 1990, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling wrote of an alternative Victori... Read more
Image via Wikipedia In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less centr... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The visions of tomorrow inspire the actions we take today. Science fiction is as much a reflection of society’s deep fascination with science as it is an agent of c... Read more