I was invited by AARP and the Atlantic Monthly to join a forum "What's Next? How Technology will Revolutionize the Boomer Generation" in Washington, DC last Fall. This is update to […]

Last week the MIT Center for Real Estate convened the MIT 2011 Real Estate Symposium engagingleaders in real estate finance, design, development and management. JoiningAvalon Bay’s William McLaughlin, AC Nielsen’s […]

The telecommunications industry is stumped by the baby boomers.The first cohort to refuse to let products or services define them as ‘old’,one would think the boomers would be quicker to […]

One of the surprising details of the death of Osama Bin Laden since President Obama’s announcement near midnight Sunday night has been the absence of what Shakespeare’s Othello called “the […]

Debate on personality disorders, classifications, diagnoses, and treatments is well worthwhile, and a colorful spokesperson never hurts.

Some have proposed using quantum entanglement (the invisible umbilical cord that exists between objects) as a form of telepathy. But there are much more practical ways of achieving telepathy that already exist.

Some have proposed using quantum entanglement (the invisible umbilical cord that exists between objects) as a form of telepathy. But there are much more practical ways of achieving telepathy that […]

I hate to be a party pooper.  Nor am I natural believer in conspiracy theories. I tend to subscribe to the ‘cock up’ rather than ‘conspiracy’ view, and I’ve rarely […]

During the past weeks I saw more and more interviews, blog posts and discussions on what the return of investment (ROI) of a college degree is these days. It is […]

I do not rejoice in anyone's death but I am glad Bin Laden has met his maker and grateful to those servicemen and women who put themselves in harm's way to […]

As the Big Three—Google, Bing, and Yahoo—make subtle changes to their search algorithms, a new crop of search engine upstarts are rethinking what it means to search altogether, with the hopes of transforming your relationship to information.

A questionable (but honest and penetrating) part of HIGHER EDUCATION? by Hacker and Dreifus is its assertive case against TENURE for professors. I have little doubt that tenure is toast.  […]

This post is mostly to show some of the great images that the Daily Mail posted about field work performed inside a crater at Thrihnukagigur* in Iceland - literally, the team […]

Porn stars aren’t paid nearly as well as mainstream celebrities. As it turns out, this discrepancy has little to do with the way the porn industry operates and everything do with monopolies created by copyright protection.

Since the birth of mass market advertising, one of the longest standing strategies has been to call a product "all natural." Today, this key word has been joined by others […]

In case we needed more evidence, digital publishing is not just here to stay but growing at an impressive rate, as notes Richard Mollet, chief executive of the Publishers Association.

Try to sue their pants off? Ignore it? Hope your fans defend you? Here one business-owner shares how they turned a competitor's online attack into an advantage.

Cars are increasingly becoming computers with wheels. Navigating, monitoring performance, maintenance, and even selling cars, is becoming digitalized.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange warns that Facebook is the “most appalling spy machine ever invented.” But businesses complain it is too hard to search its data.

Osama Bin Laden's death illustrates the power of social media to spread news, and fast, and to provide a window into reader reactions world-wide.