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Information Age

Health Care Reform and The Awesome Power of Techno-Confusion

Peggy Drexler | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Future of Journalism, Google, Newspapers, Death Panels, Information Age, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Peggy Drexler

Information technology has added rocket fuel to the engine of democracy. Will it power us forward or keep us spinning wildly in one spot?

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Information Addiction and Our Quest for Relevancy

Scott Lachut | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Internet, Relevancy, Information, Biological Imperative, Social Web, Brain, Biology, Online, Seeking, Addiction, Wanting, Mind, Information Overload, Information Age, Beating-Internet-Addiction, Internet Addiction, Facebook Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Living News
Scott Lachut

This quest for what might be, creates a seemingly infinite feedback loop where consumption continuously renews the appetite.

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Start Asking

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, Knowledge Workers, Listening, Leaders, Peter Drucker, Discipline, Information Age, Opinion, Habit, Parent, Courage, Coach, Child, Corporations, 360 Feedback, Managers, Interpersonal Relationship, Family, Leadership, Success-Tips, Living News
Marshall Goldsmith

Why don't most of us ask, even though we know we should? We don't ask, because we are afraid of the answers.

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The Reinvention of Legal Research: The Future Is Now

Peter Schwartz | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Information Age, Internet, Law, Publishing, Data, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Legal Research Online, Lexisnexis, Media News
Peter Schwartz

Legal research, once the province of desks, books, and binders, is now online, data-driven, and real-time. This poses serious challenge to old publishing stalwarts like Westlaw and LexisNexis.

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Paying Attention in the Information-Overload Age

Ward Sutton | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Information Age, Paying Attention, Multitasking, Winifred Gallagher, Digital Age, Living News
Ward Sutton

In her new book, Winifred Gallagher thoroughly makes the case that our lives -- and the people we are -- are a product of what we choose to focus our attention on.

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Libraries Are America's Lifelines. Leave Them Alone

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mayor Bloomberg, New York City, Books, Libraries, Information Age, Public Libraries, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

New York City's public library systems are once again under siege, on the chopping block, threatened with draconian cuts in the face of New York City's Great Recession.

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Moldova: Power to the People, Electronically Speaking

Moira Gunn | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

Read More: Iphone, Twitter, Tech Nation, Howard Dean, Technation, Moldova, BioTech Nation, Information Age, World News
Moira Gunn

Yes, the Information Age has arrived, and without a doubt, information and freedom are inextricably linked. Truth be told, the power of governments will never be the same.

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Tomorrow's Info Today: Staying Ahead of the News Cycle

Randall Amster | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media

Read More: The Future, Future, Media News, Unified Theory, Information Overload, Green Collar Economy, Green Jobs, Rush Limbaugh, Current Events, Economy, Victory Gardens, Information Age, The Commons, Teleportation, Recession, Star Trek, Nature, Privatization, Agribusiness, Robotics, Gardening, Gmo, Robots, Vulture Capitalism, Humor, Speculation, New Media, Humor and Satire, Media News
Randall Amster

From now on, I will only get my news from future-based sources, and thus seek to remain ahead of the curve. Outlandish, you say? Impossible? You are obviously so behind the times.

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America: Make April 8th "National Info-Less Day"

Spencer Green | Posted 04.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Internet, News Organizations, Information Overload, Digg, Information, Blog, Bloggers, Computers, Email, Information Age, Nadya Suleman, Twitter, Media, Facebook, News, Comedy News
Spencer Green

That's 24 hours in which no person, no media organization, no blogger, no social network, no whoever or whatever can disseminate, transmit, broadcast, pass along any new information to anyone else.

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A Googlement Above the People, Around the People, and Ahead of the People

Randall Amster | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Google, Internet, Google Earth, Twitter, Gps, Darpa, Total Information Awareness, Information Age, Surveillance, Shadow Government, Information Technology, Facebook, Myspace, Big Brother, New World Order, Brave New World, Media News
Randall Amster

Who else would you want keeping track of stuff, watching your back (and front), fighting our undeclared cyber-wars, and making the trains run on time? Next stop, Googletopia!

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The Information Age: Not Just Google

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Information Age, Web 2.0, The Atlantic Monthly, Google, Internet, Media News
Andrew Sargus Klein

Google isn't everything; we need to discontinue thinking of Google as the Internet age's umbrella -- its dominance is as much a product of the Internet as our own evolving neuroses.

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Computer Chip-Shrinking May Be Nearing Its Limits

AP | JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Information Age, Chip Shrinking, Chi-Shrinking, Nerve Cells Chips, Transistor Chips, Computer Chips, Business News

Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dub...

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