Broader Perspective

A recent post postulated that molecular assembler adoption is not likely to be an overnight roll-out, but more like the S-curve uptake of ...

Can you imagine yourself in competition for resources with ... yourself? There are several future cases where multiple copies of people may ...

Virtual worlds seem to be distinct from the Internet but are really the natural evolution of the web as a communications, commerce, informat...

What would the technology adoption curve for the molecular assembler look like? A molecular assembler is a home appliance which would sit o...

What kinds of policies is an advanced civilization likely to have regarding interacting with other societies it encounters? Thinking of the ...

Peer-to-peer lending company Prosper reached a benchmark $100 million in loan volume this week. With the US stock market declines, credit c...

A variety of unregulated economic activity has been occurring in the virtual world Second Life . In-world banks sprang up a few years ago an...

When thinking about the future, it is important to consider how technology may change and also how social, political, legal, regulatory and ...

Exemplifying the electric growth of Web 2.0 companies, the virtual world Second Life has grown from under 1 million residents to over 10 mi...

Some innovative solutions are needed with increasing medical system pressures from aging populations coupled with an elucidated understandin...