Information Age

Health Care Reform and The Awesome Power of Techno-Confusion

Peggy Drexler | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media


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?

Information Addiction and Our Quest for Relevancy

Scott Lachut | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living


Scott Lachut

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

Start Asking

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living


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.

The Reinvention of Legal Research: The Future Is Now

Peter Schwartz | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media


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.

Paying Attention in the Information-Overload Age

Ward Sutton | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living


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.

Libraries Are America's Lifelines. Leave Them Alone

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics


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.

Moldova: Power to the People, Electronically Speaking

Moira Gunn | Posted 05.14.2009 | World


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.

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

Randall Amster | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media


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.

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

Spencer Green | Posted 04.11.2009 | Comedy


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.

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

Randall Amster | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media


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!

The Information Age: Not Just Google

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media


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.

Computer Chip-Shrinking May Be Nearing Its Limits

AP | JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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