Seven Revolutions

04/10/2018

New tech will make the privacy vs convenience debate increasingly complicated to navigate. From : MIT's wearable device can 'hear' the words you say in your head

Researchers built a device that detects subvocalization signals with electrodes and turns them into words using AI.

03/19/2018

Sci-fi material science just made he mainstream: super material for strength, super-capacitance, and now... hair dye: graphene.

The wonder material’s latest trick? Dying hair without damaging it.

03/05/2018

Italy's election today shows populism is alive and well: "In Sunday’s vote, early results showed, the parties that did well all shared varying degrees of Euroskepticism..." Many voters supported an Italy-first agenda. https://buff.ly/2FdO6vR

02/26/2018

Near-term benefits, long-term impacts, externalities, and the difficulty of having a conversation about social consequences of economic activity.

Politics shouldn't have any thing to do with it.

02/01/2018

A new report looks at the impacts of demography, conflict, and governance in a pivotal region of the world.

History is never particularly merciful, especially in the case of failed leaders. One cannot help but wonder therefore, how will future generations of Arabs judge their current leaders? How will they judge their leaders’ focus on personal power and regime survival, on choosing one group of nationa...

01/31/2018

White House requests 72% less funding for clean energy research.

Document also suggests substantial cuts to Energy Department staffing

01/25/2018

India's 340 million smart phone users are re-shaping internet use, and starting unexpected trends. People in India are freezing their smartphones by sending too many “good morning” messages

Google believes the solution to the "good morning" madness is its new app, Files Go, which chooses specific files for possible deletion.

01/18/2018

When all of your worlds collide: virtual reality zombie games of the future.

Virtual reality, long-promised, is finally gaining traction in New York video boutiques. But is there more to VR than just games?

01/17/2018

Cape Town is showing us one potential water future. It's 4 million residents have less than 90 days of water.

"Day zero" is forecast to be April 22

01/17/2018

It looks like Google is trying to be the Google for AI--making it easier for anyone to build their own AI algorithms.

With a new cloud-computing service, businesses can build their own artificial intelligence algorithms, even if they have little experience with the technology.

01/16/2018

What role should companies play in the future? BlackRock just gave a $6 trillion answer.

Laurence Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, the $6 trillion investment firm, plans to tell C.E.O.s in a letter that businesses must serve a social purpose.

01/10/2018

What is the world order, and how will mega trends and individual choices lead to changes that will impact your future? Long piece, but worth a read War on the Rocks.

In Washington and other friendly capitals, there is increasing concern about the state of liberal world order. There is a sense that the rules and institut