The recent decision by President Obama to disband his predecessor's Council on Bioethics raises important questions regarding the role of professional bioethicists in contemporary society.
There's no doubt that the current smartphone revolution will do for mobile productivity what the PC revolution did for office productivity in the 1990s.
There are are serious concerns that growing kids' health may be harmed by electromagnetic frequency emissions from cell phones.
Robotic hummingbirds will be able to discretely enter areas where people would not be able to go without being detected and will look so realistic that people could easily be fooled.
The ruling Islamists appear to have forgotten their own history, and the role that technology can play in a popular uprising.
The Kindle is for the book-lover who might buy a first, a signed or a special edition. It is lingerie. It is a box of chocolates or a bottle of double-malt. Competition will drive it to adapt, and it will.
The technology provides uninterrupted, real-time information to air traffic controllers and pilots with exceptional accuracy. Using NextGen, planes can follow pre-determined flight patterns with a deviation no greater than the wingspan of the airplane.
The Personal Democracy Forum has become one of the few truly indispensable annual gatherings, devoted to the nexus of politics, media and technology.
Nerds -- and I say that with the utmost respect -- are changing the lives of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.
Some people are happily distracted by their Twitters and Tweets and would have it no other way. I, on the other hand, begin sweating and twitching as I near my computer.
My mind wanders and twitches from one topic to another, buzzing and gurgling with things to do, people to see, wisps of possibilities for the future and images of the past.
In today's world, many students in the U.S. schools aren't taught to work hard.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is back in Cupertino -- for good, we hope -- after a six-month medical leave.
Possibly merely watching, not even protesting, a police sharpshooter hit Neda's heart and all of ours too. Lest you or anyone else ever think that young people or females are insignificant to revolution or social progress, think again.
First thought, best thought. Improvisational jazz, poetry slams and music jams, Ginsberg, Kerouac. First thought, best thought. Holy hell. Is that Twitter?
At the same time that Twitter and Facebook facilitate grass-roots communications, though, these technologies sow the seeds for future political repression.
The lines outside Apple stores aren't the same as they were last year, when the iPhone 3G first went on sale, quenching all sorts of pent-up demand.
It's not just Iran. Getting news out of countries in the throes of political turmoil has always been dicey. And getting the news out has often meant using the most recent technology to thwart the authorities.
Much of what goes on in digital life happens anonymously, which can make people think they can escape being caught. Remote access also lessens the sense of face-to-face responsibility.
In Iran, a religious revolution in decline is confronting a technological revolution in ascendancy.
Will we step boldly into the new economic reality with a plan for creating jobs? Or will we look to unsustainable government protections that will force the US to take a backseat in the new era?
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serving as a wake up call.
me think certain hi-tech ip, hardware, os, and software should have the same international trade restrictions as advanced weapon systems.
Wasn't there a virus a while back that was supposed to unite thousands of PCs for some kind of attack by a certain date and then nothing happened? could this have been why this mole virus was planted?
Cyber-security is more than spy-stuff, imagine dams having their water released onto unsuspecting towns around dams? There is much that seems innocuous and isn't. Isn't the Cyber-security guy in place? or is his appointment on hold by the GOP as well>
very touchy subject because there are privacy, free speech, and trade implications.
this topic is extremely important.
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