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Google's prototype for a completely automated car radically changes the driving experience from actively controlling the vehicle to removing even the option of steering, accelerating, or braking.
Just as automated assembly lines have replaced manual labor, the looming question for future economies is that of the labor market. How many of our current jobs will be replaced by machines?
A £10m project is underway to develop a mechanical set of pincers to perform risky procedures.
Much weight falls on the shoulders of the executive branch's mouth.
One side is radical, revolutionary and bold. The other is conservative, traditional, and won't back down.
The vault, aptly labeled "Memory Lane," houses over half a century of little yellow bricks.
Some scientists believe that humanity's best shot at colonizing other planets lies in working within existing physics using organisms -- in this case, bacteria encoded with human DNA -- that can survive the trip.
General relativity sure does make some counterintuitive predictions. “They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.”-Steven Wright Each week on Ask Ethan, I take a dive […]
Teenage monkeys tended to drink more fermented sugar cane than their elders. Researchers hypothesize that older monkeys drink less because of "monkey politics".
Insight--that eureka moment when a new idea appears like a bolt from the blue--is the most essential characteristic of creativity. Without insight, there simply can be no creativity.
Philosopher Roberto Unger outlines the problem with illusion of false necessity.
Understanding how to digitally communicate is an undeniably essential tool. There’s no opting out. So much of how we connect today, in our business and personal lives, even our dating, […]
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Imperative CEO Aaron Hurst (http://www.imperative.com) describes how we are evolving from an information economy to an economy of purpose. Hurst is the author of The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire […]
CAMBRIDGE – Headlines around the world last week trumpeted a watershed moment for the global economy. As the Financial Timesput it, “China poised to pass US as world’s leading economic […]
Cheeky Scottish space engineers rejoice! Teleportation of humans is theoretically possible.
LAGUNA BEACH – There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media. It is a phenomenon that has […]
I like to utilize labor. Not commodity labor like a housekeeper or a dog-walker. The economics of commodity labor are well-established though a competitive marketplace. The price of labor is […]
A new study from noted biologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University has measured the rate at which species are currently going extinct and concludes that the plant is on the brink of a sixth massive extinction of plant and animal life.
Our ruling ideas grow evermore ethically evasive. Ignoring evident big picture problems, they have us mindlessly seeking the mathematically and morally absurd. Simple maxims can clarify: Economics, the study of […]
In a five-year study of college women, sociologists found that the term "slut" is capable of changing meaning to accommodate the pernicious goal of controlling women and creating hierarchy.