The Allen Human Brain Atlas could launch a type of neuro-scientific Renaissance that finally decodes the mysteries within our minds.

The far-reaching political changes that have occurred across the Middle East might actually have been predicted by looking at the data about the rapid pace of technological development in the region. 

The next great billion-dollar concept on the Web might just involve airbed mattresses, second-hand couches and the ability to swap and share local accommodations on a global scale. A group […]

One of the hottest ideas in business and technology is the idea of leveraging gaming technology to solve real world problems. Now is the time for the healthcare industry to take notice.

Bringing philosophers into the corporation is not an entirely new idea. But in our new era of computational power the Philosopher-Kings will be determining how each of us lives, thinks and feels.

Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that everything – including the Sun – revolved around the Earth. In the same way, it might be quaint one day to believe that everything once revolved around the PC rather than the mobile device.

Wall Street investment banks will begin trading a new type of exotic financial instrument in which the underlying cash flows of an artist's creative works are re-packaged into off-balance sheet derivatives

Design Thinking is one of the most fashionable concepts in the innovation world these days. But could it really save industries that are on the fast road to extinction?

If it lives up to its initial promise, the much-ballyhooed new app Color represents a fundamentally new type of mobile social network that, in many ways, is almost the polar opposite of Facebook. What’s so radical about it? For one, Color has done away entirely with the notion of the Friend.

At one time, it seemed inconceivable that Detroit—the leading automotive center in the world—could ever lose its place on the world stage. But what if Silicon Valley is not ready for the Post-Silicon Era?

What does it mean for our digital future when the Internet has become a giant game where the goal is to acquire as many fans and followers as quickly as possible, across as many social platforms as possible? 

The current retirement system assumes that people must diligently save and invest in order to buy things in the future. But what if people were free to share, barter and swap for these goods?

Individuals, corporations and government organizations are sitting on vast treasure troves of archived data that can be branded and then digitized as tiny propaganda across the Web to support their own agendas. 

A manufacturing revolution brought about by new 3D printing technologies could restore the United States as hub for manufacturing jobs—sooner rather than later.

The Web of the immediate future is one that is increasingly visual, empathetic and design-centric. If it had a gender, it would be female. 

It's no longer enough just to have a Big Idea. Now you need to have a Big Idea about how to spread that Big Idea. 

It turns out that there are small clusters of innovation being created all over the world, in some places you might least expect.

It almost goes without saying that the recent demise of bookseller Borders, which is in the process of liquidating more than 200 of its superstores around the nation, was inevitable. […]

Avenues: The World School, a exclusive school set to open in 2012 in New York City, will be one of the most forward-looking and global schools on the planet. But will this model fix America's educational system or just exacerbate inequalities?

As some of you may realize by now, the FORTUNE Innovation Forum will not be taking place in 2007, and that means the Business Innovation Insider, which was launched as […]