futurism

A lot of "netroots" bloggers express constant consternation over this, but it's a very typical historical pattern. The pattern is...

The next crisis is so immense that we are doing everything possible to avoid looking at it. The harbinger, the...

Always On is a "canary in the cold mine" for American technology generally. A decade ago, two decades ago, three...

Define the chemical structure of something, understand the dynamics of its reproduction, and you unlock the biology of the thing....

Re-creating the creative force of the 1990s is central to getting our economic mojo back, and to taking the battle...

Jimmy Carter is a litmus test of what we are as people, and most Americans are still failing. Until we...

Moore's Law, as I see it, means that things get faster-and-faster faster-and-faster. You double four to get 8, you double...

An Inconvenient Truth isn't just a movie. It's not just an inconvenience. It is the new reality defining the task...

Consensus is fairly rare, but it's the most transformative force our politics has.

Using a life process to create an obviously inorganic compound means the same process might be used to create other...