Escape from Spiderhead
Science fiction can tell us a great deal about the future because it asks us to think with all of our faculties, not just about the nuts and bolts of […]
2010
Year of the Leak
2010 is the year of the leak. From the Afghanistan and Iraq war diaries, to Cablegate, and the upcoming revelations about Bank of America, the website Wikileaks has driven the […]
Data Visualization for Better Government
If you live in one of more than 300 American cities, you may already be familiar with the 311 service. But 311 can do more than fix potholes, or get […]
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
What would happen if you attacked poverty with a culture transplant? Take a needy third-world country, and have them voluntary cede a piece of land to, say, the Canadians, where their laws and […]
A RotaVirus Vaccine’s Remarkable Impact
American medical research making a big difference against a disease that hit Nicaragua’s children hard. We defy you to watch this video without reaching for the tissues. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/livingproofproject/Pages/video-gallery.aspx#video=/livingproofproject/Pages/vaccine-remarkable-impact.aspx&pager=0&filter=&autostart=true
What Synthetic Life Means
We have been getting a lot of questions about the meaning of Craig Venter’s accomplishment, creating self-replicating life, more or less. Joel’s been responding — this is like the creation […]
Ghost In The Shell
The film is set in the not-too-distant future, when an unnamed government uses lifelike cyborgs or “enhanced” humans for undercover work. One of the key cyborgs is The Major, Motoko […]
Ghost In The Shell
From Shirow Masamune, the award-winning creator of Appleseed and Dominion, comes “The Ghost in the Shell”, the breakthrough manga that inspired the internationally acclaimed animated film. An epic dystopian tale […]
The Transformation
The point is not what he says, it’s that he’s saying it in Oprah magazine. When this bastion of the ordinary is talking radical transformation, who knows what might happen […]
4 Health Breakthroughs We Might See By 2020
Oprah, talking about the deep, radical future again. The next ten years will radically change the way major diseases are diagnosed, treated, even cured. Take a sneak peak at the […]