Here are five reasons why you should just buy your "environmentally friendly" vehicle of choice and stop holding your breath for a flying future that will never come.
To make a lasting change in the years ahead many of us will need to awaken from our passive slumber and grab hold of reality, reaching out to our world, recognizing our creative immersion, and engaging energetically with our lives.
What will travel look like in fifty years? Will heavy suitcases and lineups be annoyances of the past? It is hard to know, but we can speculate.
Flying cars, Rosie the robot housekeeper, moon colonies and the like would all be lovely. But I would rather have made more progress toward decency and equality and kindness and humanity than we seem to have made.
Is it possible and useful to mathematically formalize human behavior on large scales sufficient to probabilistically predict the future? This questio...
Time really is the reef upon which our mystic sailing ship gets caught. So, as you adjust the clocks on Saturday night, try to become the silent witness of how, no matter how you may be able to manipulate the hands on a clock, you can't change something that doesn't really exist.
It is hard work to keep our hearts open when it feels it has been broken by the karate chop of a bad hand dealt. Yet here is the challenge of our generation: Can we dream, in spite of our present reality, of a greater and greater vision for our lives and never give up on pursuing happiness?
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-...