In the last couple of months a number of wave energy technology projects have made the headlines. Wave-energy harnesses energy from ocean waves and converts it to electricity. Why consider wave power over wind or solar? Look at a world globe. It’s hard not to notice all the wate

The manifesto of the 10,000 members of Initiative 2045 begins with the following: “Honorable businessmen and businesswomen, members of the Forbes richest list: human life is unique and priceless.  It is only when we have to part with life do we realize just how much we have not

Imagine not dying….ever! Instead all of your thoughts get uploaded to a computer brain in the body of a robot and you continue to experience consciousness through the machine’s memory circuits. Well that’s a story that caught my eye this morning as I was reading thro

Scientists hypothesize, test, validate or disprove observation. Climate science is nascent but observations are concrete. Correlation cannot be overlooked. I don’t ascribe to a belief in a super being that sets the wheels of the universe in motion. I do believe that we humans ha

Welcome to this week’s 21st Century Technology headlines. Each week I select a few interesting stories about technological innovation that more often helps rather than hurts the planet as we humans tackle the problems we face this century. As always I encourage you to comment, ask que

Before climate change believers pounce on me, let me state clearly that I am convinced we are seeing the early stages of a global warming trend that is being exacerbated by human activity. But I’m not fully convinced that all of what we are seeing is human created. There are his

Prololoquo2Go gives voice to those who cannot speak. The technology is the product of AssistiveWare, a company founded in 2000 that provides assistive technology software to address physical, vision, communication and reading impairment problems. Screen and application reading softwar

Boy this technology better work considering all the press it’s getting. LENR stands for low energy nuclear reactor. A couple of weeks ago on this blog site we asked the question is cold fusion real and got lots of comments both for and against. Well the technology keeps on being

The headlines in today’s newspapers imply that global warming and surface melt over Greenland are linked. The truth is – there’s no way to know. Global warming is a phenomenon measured over time based on analysis of data and projected trends. Because humans have been

Hotels in low-Earth orbit are one of a number of anticipated milestones we will see achieved within the decade according to a website called SpaceFuture.com. In a paper published in 2000 for a conference on advances in civil engineering, Patrick Collins wrote, “within little mor