Institute For The Future

This week's The Economist has a fantastic survey of logistics. It is a great survey of the explosive growth of outsourcing of logistics in many...

Squatters and Innovation

As we start framing out the forthcoming Technology Horizons memo on "Cannibalism and Co-operation in the New Infrastructure", we've decided to frame...

Where are the world's billionaires

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All the World

"I'll open mine, if you open yours..."

Kristopher Tate, founder of Zooomr, wanted access to Flickr's API. Stewart Butterfield, Flickr's founder, initially said no, but then had a change of...

Engineering a better physicist

The physicsWeb have an interesting article about the distance between the fields of engineering and physics and comments on what the outcome of...

"A materials scientist from Sandia National Laboratories argues that nanoscale computer simulations can actually provide more detailed info than...

I've spent a day at the Where 2.0 conference on geospatial technology and media, which Technology Horizons researcher Mike Liebhold spoke at...

I've spent most of last week and this working on an event I'm leading next week, two days of technology roadmapping and scenario planning. I've...

Nanotubes for clean water

"According to the World Health Organization, 1.1 billion people around the world lack access to safe water. Dirty drinking water is to blame for...

Science textbooks of the Future

In a recent Nature story, we see hints to the demise of science textbooks.

"I was stuck by an article in The Wall Street Journal about the extend of love connections among characters playing massive multiplayer online games...

Cities That Live?

We had a fascinating presentation from Drew Endy of MIT's Biological Engineering Division, which was "founded in 1998 as a new MIT departmental...

a conference for anyone who will be around Boston next week and is interested in identity systems. Click here for the conference...

Identity Management for Kids

Reading today's article in the New York Times about potential employers and college admissions people going through Myspace and Friendster sites to...

TH Conference Materials Available for Download

All the materials from the recent Tech Horizons Exchange--Beyond the Horizon: Science & Technology in Ten, Twenty & Fifty Years are now available for...

Genetics Causes Half Of Entrepreneurship

Randall Parker of FuturePundit discusses a research study that looks at genetics and entrepreneurship in this post....

Same-Language Subtitling organization given Google Grant

via GoogleBlog,...

One of the great unwritten history of technology stories is the biography of the Post-It. (By "biography" I mean its invention; its subsequent use,...

You never know what will serve as the source for some illuminating (or at least entertaining) metaphor. For example, Stephen Colbert's graduation...

I've spent most of last week and this working on an event I'm leading next week, two days of technology roadmapping and scenario planning. I've...

Software and the Personality of Buildings

I am writing up some scenarios for the future of "abundant computing" as Mike Liebhold has started calling the future of grid and desktop...

Hyperlinked society

A cool-looking conference at the Annenberg School this weekend....The Hyperlinked SocietyMost internet users know hyperlinks as highlighted words on a...

Fingertip magnet implants

"If you were able to make the Technology Horizons conference recently, you may have met Quinn Norton, a blogger and journalist who also happens to be...