Technology

Last week I finished reading Al Gore’s latest tome, a follow up to his well publicized “An Inconvenient Truth,” probably his most significant contribution to the global climate change debate, although I would think “debate” is an over statement at this st

Every year the MIT Technology Review picks the ten technologies that represent significant breakthroughs.  Past years have included crowdfunding in 2012, gestural interfaces to computers in 2011, engineered stem cells in 2010 and low cost DNA sequencing in 2009, just to name a few. Wh

A company in Canada, D-Wave Systems, is making some of the big industry players sit up and take notice. Back in November of last year I wrote about D-Wave’s Vesuvius 512-qubit processor and how early adopters were purchasing the technology to do complex problem solving.  One of

Dmitry Itskov is a Russian entrepreneur and founder of the 2045 Initiative with a goal to reinvent humanity to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Last July I reported on this as an initiative of billionaires. At the time membership was around 10,000. Today it has more than doubl

My weekly picks unlike last week are not a single theme but range over many science and technology fields. I hope you find these stories as interesting as I do.   The Universe is 100 Millions Older Than We Thought; Physicists Calculate Doomsday Argument; New 3D Display No Longer

Kickstarter is a great place to see human inventiveness at work. It’s also an opportunity for you to make an investment in something you think has “legs.” Launched in 2009 the site has raised over a half-billion dollars for 35,000 projects. Check out the statistics.

There are many 3D printers on the market now and some of them are even affordable for home use. But making 3D models up to now has required CAD software and mastering engineering drawing is not everybody’s cup of tea. Enter two new products, the MakerBot Digitizer and the CADSca

From climate change to astronaut poo it was another interesting week in science and technology stories. Here are the ones I have selected to share with you:   Climate Change Study Goes Back 11,300 Years with Startling Conclusions; The Biggest Challenge for Human Flight to Mars an

The MIT Technology Review has put together its list of 50 candidates representing innovative companies that will have a telling affect on the world this year and in years to come. Each company on the list has been chosen because it has either created a new market or challenged leaders