futurism

I have been using the Internet since moving into our present house 40 years ago. It doesn’t seem that long....

E-books are better than paper books. They cost nothing to deliver. They’re cheaper than paper books. They don’t kill trees....

Anyone who thinks Xi Jinping is sleeping easy these days has it wrong. The man has taken to wearing Mao...

If only 2% of us are on an e-bike, cities will remain car centric. Wherever the riding population gets into...

The irony is that this justifies the strategy of Japan’s Toyota

Over the last month I’ve been treated on TV to a parade of so-called financial experts, each one confidently predicting...

I am tired of the economics of fairy dust, and I’m tired of economists who see everything through a moral...

There’s a bargain to capitalism. You can make as much money as you want, but you’re subject to the law....

There will be a reshuffling, away from basic enablement like cloud and A.I. “operating systems,” toward applications and solutions.

Maybe hundreds of millions are going to die horrible, premature deaths because oil oligarchs ignored the climate crisis. Some of...