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I believe we will go to space because we have to in order to continue our growth as human beings. There is little choice involved.
2011 was the rare and beautiful year that was so packed with surprising and innovative films, it was seriously difficult to boil it down to just ten.
As 2012 unfolds, most notably with predictions about political elections, beware of the experts. For the most part, these experts are no better than dart-throwing chimps.
The measure of hip hop is not only "is it true?" but also how it accesses truth found in a distinctly American context.
Two decades later, websites are unrecognizable from that first spawn. So what does the website look like in another 20? Will it continue to exist as we know it now? Evidence proves it's already shifting with tastes, patterns and behaviors.
As if the development and implications of Watson weren't enough to win our affections for IBM, their new THINK exhibit at Lincoln Center may do the trick.
Like politics, the entertainment industry is filled with monstrous egos awash in a sea of dysfunctional behavior.
Miranda July's The Future maintains some of her trademark quirk, but unlike her previous film, that quirk is employed for darker, edgier purposes.
In a summer full of overdone blockbusters (hello, Captain America?) and wan, airless independent films (The Future - urrgh), it's nice to find an old-...
It's the year 2049, and good news! The United States of Chinamerica has finally gotten rid of its debt. How did we do it? With a solution so simple, so elegant, it eluded the best minds of our and previous generations, until its genius was irresistible
Here it is: A mere 40 years from now, the world population, which just recently reached a sweating, gasping seven billion, will be well over nine billion.
What if our most important endeavors, those that determine the direction of our country, dictate the quality of our relationships and define us as human beings, could be structured in such a way that everybody wins?
The conjunction of the American right's cultural and budgetary crusades created traps into which middle class voters and higher education officials have fallen again and again.
As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening. Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.
We are facing challenges of a generation-defining nature. The call is upon all of us to enter into the future not as spectators awaiting the end of things but as co-creators and participants.
I confess that in a quasi-religious way I have long been intrigued by the concept of a godlike computer, and Watson has kindled that interest back into flame.
