How would you tackle the problem of helping a billion people in ten years? That was the question posed to Singularity University's first graduating class, who formed four teams to tackle it. Their visions have just been unveiled, and ...READ»
Inventor Ray Kurzweil was never your typical entrepreneur. His first company developed omni-font optical character recognition, leading to the invention of the flatbed scanner, a technology he later sold to ...READ»
The new issue of GOOD magazine is a timely one, dedicated entirely to transportation. It includes an interactive, before and after graphic showing exactly how urban planners would go about making a forbidding city street ...READ»
Maybe you've wondered how someone gets to be a "futurist." Simple: Go to futurist university. Google and NASA will unveil just such a school at this week's TED conference; the head of the school with be one of the the leading ...READ»
CNN reported today that a woman successfully received a transplant of a section of trachea made from her own stem cells. Scientific progress of the future has arrived.READ»