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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Discovering the Theory of Everything would be the crowning achievement of modern science, allowing mankind to master time and space.
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There are no more evolutionary pressures driving gross human evolution, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be able to genetically re-engineer ourselves in the future.
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Theoretically, there could be people and planets made out of antimatter rather than matter, but where are they?
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By 2030 the physicist expects that we will have hot fusion reactors.
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When you freeze human tissue, it may appear to be preserved superficially, but the ice crystals that form create massive cell damage, causing many cell walls to rupture.
Malcolm Gladwell pours cold water on the promise of search technology, which he says is fixing many problems “that aren’t really problems.”
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Peter Diamandis says that innovation is in the hands of small companies, not large corporations and governments that are risk-averse. Garry Kasparov argues the disinclination toward risk would rob us […]
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If Social Media is the breakthrough development of Web 2.0, what is next in search for Web 3.0 and beyond? Peter Diamandis speculates on the evolution of search in the […]
Is the promise of search technology just a lot of hype, as Malcolm Gladwell suggests, or will our ability to employ breakthrough technologies in search, as Peter Diamandis argues, make […]
Can we make a better engine? Yes. Is the state of search technology the reason we haven’t found a cure for cancer? No.
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Many kids are vaccinated at age two, the same age at which autism is often first noticed. But the “evidence” that one causes the other doesn’t wash.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin does not actually have much support, says Kasparov. He believes a social revolt is inevitable, but what type of regime will fill the vacuum?
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While in the West people are fighting to win elections, Russians are fighting to have elections, says the former presidential candidate.
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Spaces between words were only invented around 800 or 900 AD, before which reading was a more cognitively intensive act. The advent of eReaders threatens to revive this complexity, says […]
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If you want to change your brain, you have to change your habits—but good luck avoiding the Internet in this day and age!
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The Internet might actually be diminishing our capacity to form long-term memories.
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The map, the mechanical clock and the printing press are all examples of “intellectual technologies” that have reshaped the way humans think. And the ways of thinking that we learned […]