Cities are the great hope for our future The organization behind the high-profile uber-conference TED has announced an unusual winner for the 2012 iteration of its TED Prize. The awar... Read more
Last year here at TED I asked you to give me your data, to put your data on the web, on the basis that if people put data onto the web — government data, scientific data, community dat... Read more
Cover via Amazon Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture. When... Read more
This past weekend the Twitterverse spoke-out in exasperation against traditional media networks and the lack of instantaneous coverage of the Iranian election Read more
Image via Wikipedia Electric tech could make plugs obsolete. A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference. The technique e... Read more
Image via Wikipedia This is a point that we’ve been making for years (and often highlighting the research that proves this), but innovation and good ideas tend not to come from the pro... Read more