Broader Perspective

The ethics of the future could likely shift to one of immanence. In philosophy, immanence means situations where everything comes from wi...

So far the individual has almost always existed in the context of a society of others. This could change in the farther future as individ...

A key feature of the contemporary media environment is interactivity. From clicking big data into information visualizations to personal ...

A key hurdle point for any newtech’s becoming truly mainstream is adoption by the enterprise market. The newtech innovates its way into a...

Advance in science always helps to promulgate new ideas for addressing long-standing multidisciplinary problems. Max Tegmark's recent...

The focus of the 11th annual conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO) held April 14-17, 2014 in Snowbird UT was self-assembl...

A strong new presence in contemporary life is big data (the collection and use of personal data by large institutions). As individuals, w...

The purpose of an open-science non-profit research startup like DIYgenomics is research innovation . The value is in being able to pro...

Philosophical concepts are useful for considering a potentially diverse landscape of future persons. One important question is subjecti...

One of the most significant shifts in the contemporary world is the trend towards obtaining and analyzing ‘big data’ in nearly every venu...