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It may be easier for men to to demonstrate authority associated with traditional leadership, but today's world calls for collaboration and cooperation, skills which suit women better.
The new experimental "brain chips" developed by researchers at IBM and DARPA represent a fundamental breakthrough in computing power. If these brain chips are ever commercialized, they would make possible what are essentially thinking, artificial brains.
BY JASON SILVA Physicist Freeman Dyson has spoken of a new "Age of Wonder" centered on computers and biology. He has artfully articulated that in the near future "a new […]
BY JASON SILVA “We are enraptured prose-beings raised to the highest power". - Walter Benjamin, On Hashish Timothy Leary and Buckminster Fuller called themselves "performing philosophers", using the power of […]
I ask the above question at least halfway in earnest, and also as an excuse to write about Mad Men. (The season premiere has been delayed by contract disputes, so […]
Don't try this at home (you can only do it in Nevada): Take a ride in Google's Robocar, which is operated by a machine, not a human. A law passed […]
This video from Silicon.com features Kevin Warwick, professor at Reading University in England, a pioneer in cybernetics and a former cyborg. Warwick had an electronic chip "fired into his body." […]
You know that I am a huge fan of technology that merges the real world with enhanced information layers like QR codes and Augmented Reality. The third technology worth mentioning […]
In a previous post, Teddy Zareva wrote about a biodegradable urn made by the Spanish designer Martin Azua that turns you into a tree when you die. Big Think readers […]
I can’t lie. Every polysyllabic word like “maximalist” that President Obama uttered on his Ground Force One tour this week grated on my nerves. And yet, despite using the type […]
Just as it’s OK to swear in the office once or twice a year, you may stand up to your boss occasionally. But don’t make a habit of it, because […]
Former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki says swearing in the business setting is alright "once or twice a year." But don't do it more often than that, because "pain in the asses do not advance."
There are hundreds of intelligent things that computers are doing that are part of our everyday lives that used to require human intelligence.
A new microchip made by researchers at I.B.M. is a landmark. Unlike an ordinary chip, it mimics the functioning of a biological brain, which could open new possibilities in computation.
So here's some more on THE HELP. My first post dealt with the film's display of the middle-class racist tyranny, mainly of women, in Jackson, Mississippi in1963. My opinion is […]
Now that my rage over losing the post yesterday afternoon has subsided, it's time for me to try to recreate it (but that lost post was most definitely the best […]
As the manufacturing industry left American metropolises for the east, our cities became something even greater: idea factories. Cities are the engines of innovation and they are growing.
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If you have a big idea, chances are you’ll have to raise capital to make it happen. But don't limit yourself to just looking for someone to cut a check.
Yesterday, Republican politician, conservative advocate and definitely not-a-witch Christine O'Donnell "walked out" on an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan. She was there to promote her new book, Troublemaker, when she […]