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Washington policy wonks have been grappling with a subject that is more the province of poets and philosophers than bureaucrats: what is the value of a human life?
For many of the questions Watson got right on Jeopardy!, a naive Google query of the 'en.wikipedia.org' domain returned, as the first result, the correct answer.
Technology is eating jobs—and not just obvious ones like toll takers and phone operators. Lawyers and doctors are at risk as well. Is your job an endangered species?
The Congressional Budget Office projects that America's 2011 deficit will be $1.5 trillion, or 9.8% of GDP, and debt held by the public in the 2011 fiscal year will approach 70% of GDP.
Hi everyone, If you type www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org into your browser, you’ll see that Dangerously Irrelevant has a new home! I’m now hosted at BigThink, which is dedicated to deep thinking on […]
From his many interviews with "minor geniuses," Malcolm Gladwell distills a couple characteristics shared by all successful innovators.
Just how well computers are able to understand language nuance--what researchers call the "Paris Hilton" problem--will determine how far A.I. has come.
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Connecting the dots between hair care and the American belief in reinvention, Polykoff invented one of the most famous advertising taglines in history: "Does she or doesn't she? Only her […]
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Growing up in a war-torn country and contracting a very rare type of cancer, Nassim Taleb became fixed on the idea that catastrophe is more common than most people think—an […]
An inventor from the Jersey Boardwalk, Popeil's great genius was to make the whole world care about something that previously only weirdly obsessed aficionados of kitchen gadget had cared about.
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Michio Kaku and Peter Diamandis tackle the difference between the way our brains and machines compute, and how Artificial Intelligence will impact the future of the Web.
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As we contemplate the farthest reaches of where the Web is going, it is remarkable to consider how technical advances have already fundamentally altered our notions of privacy online.
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Malcolm Gladwell pours cold water on the promises of search technology, suggesting that new technologies are solving problems that don't really exist.
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X-Prize Foundation Founder and Chairman Peter Diamandis and best-selling technology writer Nicholas Carr both speak to both the dreams and fears of what the web is becoming.
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Are we willing to take risks in order to bring about innovation? X-Prize Foundation’s Peter Diamandis and Chess Grandmaster Gary Kasparov weigh in on the state of innovation today.
With tremendous improvements in energy efficiency, traditional buildings can be just as sustainable as buildings that flaunt their green-ness.
A buddy of mine called me the other day with awe in his voice and asked me if I knew that Hosni Mubarak was worth as much as Bill Gates. […]
True intimacy would be far more profound if we were all connected to each other by the Internet.
Sanaa University president,Khalid Tamim, has been removed from his post, according to reports in Yemen. News Yemen claims it has been trying to get a hold of him this morning […]
1. According to our really cool BIG THINK physicist, Michio Kaku, evolution has stopped for our species. 2. But that doesn't mean we can't change ourselves. 3. So, in the […]