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Seven years before Charles Darwin went public with his evolutionary theories in On the Origin of Species, Herbert Spencer sketched out the basics of evolution and natural selection.
Two management consultants identify four guiding principles successful companies have followed to prepare for a world of constant Internet connectivity.
I didn’t get to watch the livestream of the first half of our Farsight 2011: Beyond The Search Box event today, but the parts I did see were enough to […]
“The future of search is verbs.” This is what Bill Gates told Esther Dyson over dinner, and what Esther Dyson told us at Big Think’s Google v. Bing/Farsight 2011: Beyond […]
For many Washington, DC readers the upcoming event at the Newseum, co-organized by the School of Communication at American University, is likely to be of strong interest. Details are below […]
Long gone are the days when Clapham was a small, rustic village well beyond the gates of medieval London. Also gone, but less long, is the era of Clapham as […]
Four out of five autism sufferers are male. Are fundamental male-female brain differences causing the gap?
In a panel near the end of Farsight 2011, several panelists spoke about how the sheer quantity of information around us is affecting the way we think — and even how our brains are developing.
In a special presentation at Big Think's Farsight 2011, Ilya Segalovich, co-founder and CTO of Russian search engine Yandex spoke about why his company has been dominant in that country's […]
The fourth part of Big Think's Farsight 2011 event discussed what future search experiences might be like. People instinctively want to interact with technology in ways that feel natural to […]
Facebook and other social media are becoming permanently woven into our society’s fabric, says NYU telecommunications professor Clay Shirky. Privacy is a 20th century notion.
Part 5 of Big Think's Farsight 2011 event looked at how artificial intelligence and machine learning would affect the future of digital search — and how we understand and predict the future.
Any actions associated with zero costs tend to become debased over time, says technologist Jaron Lanier. Search is no different.
In part 2 of Big Think's Farsight 2011 event Principal Engineer at Google, Matt Cutts and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Dr. Harry Shum bump heads.
Some other bits of news from around volcano world (that doesn't have to do with Japan). Eruptions readers have sent me a pile of leads/articles over the last week and […]
Vivek Wadhwa introduces the key note speaker of Big Think's Farsight 2011: Beyond the Search Box, former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel.
By 2030 the physicist expects that we will have hot fusion reactors.
Do anti-prostitution laws discriminate against women near the bottom of the income distribution while ignoring similar behavior by women near the top?