Creativity and Intuition Enhanced by Hiking In Woods
New research reveals that we’re more focused and creative in the great outdoors By Kevin Charles Redmon, Have you been staring cow-eyed at a computer all morning? Fiddling with your iPhone in line at Starbucks? Checking Twitter and ESPN every four minutes on your tablet? Good. Here’s a little quiz. What one word…
We have always been Cyborgs and always will be….
SINCE broadband began its inexorable spread at the start of this millennium, Internet use has expanded at a cosmic rate. Last year, the number of Internet users topped 2.4 billion — more than a third of all humans on the planet. The time spent on the screen was 16 hours per week globally —…
The Future is a Crowded Place : In the largest electronic basket ever built
By the year 2025 we will have finally come to grasp that in virtually every human endeavor, density pays. Silicon Valley has known this since Gordon Moore coined his eponymous law nearly half a century ago, predicting the exponentially increasing density and decreasing price of the processing power crammed onto microchips — a dynamic…
Fashion Clothes Sensors: Monitor Health Data
Imagine putting on clothes – and pajamas – each day and night equipped with micro-sensors that monitor your health in real-time, around-the-clock. This vision is at the heart of an on-going Swiss research project that aims to create “Guardian Angel” sensors that can seamlessly and constantly monitor a person’s health and environment wherever they…
Extreme Hotel Experience Underwater In Dubai
By Karissa Rosenfield Courtesy of Deep Ocean Technology Dubai shipbuilder Drydocks World has signed on with Switzerland’s BIG InvestConsult, on behalf of partner Deep Ocean Technology (DOT), to become the sole construction contractor of the futuristic Water Discus Underwater Hotels in the Middle East. Tailored to the luxurious lifestyle, aspiring divers and marine life enthusiasts,…
Robotic News For The Masses: Automated platforms are now “writing” news
Automated platforms are now “writing” news Can technology be autonomous? Does it lead a life of its own and operate independently of human guidance? From the French theologian Jacques Ellul to the Unabomber, this used to be widely accepted. Today, however, most historians and sociologists of technology dismiss it as naive and inaccurate….
Entrepreneurial Encouragement: India there is no climate of respecting failure
The struggles and successes of India’s start-up culture Is Bangalore Asia’s answer to Silicon Valley? Start-up Stories Delhi start-up rethinks ink Michael and Xochi Birch, Bebo Brent Hoberman, lastminute.com Krishnan Ganesh, TutorVista Twenty years ago in the vibrant entrepreneurial paradise of Silicon Valley in the US, it was said that you would find…
Virgin America Makes Quantum Leap: Aviation Breakthrough
Virgin Spends $1.4 Billion On Super-Efficient, Ultra Quiet Jet Engines BY Ariel SchwartzToday Virgin America isn’t waiting for major innovation in the biodiesel sector; they want to pay less for fuel now. So they’re investing in a remarkable new engine from GE. “This is one of these significant breakthroughs in technology and engine efficiency that…
Culturomics: A New Era Of Economic Emergency
Stubborn refusal of an order untenable The protests that break in Europe this year against the austerity policies – in Greece and France, but also to a lesser extent, Ireland, Italy, Spain – gave birth to two fictions. The first forged by the authorities and the media, based on a depoliticization of the…