Science Faction: Intel's Futurist Leads Through Story
I think we all remember the relentless rain that set the film "Blade Runner." It was that type of dystopian gale that soaked Austin, TX yesterday as geeks, techies, designers and, yes, futurists...
View ArticleSXSW Dispatch: As American as Fear, Baseball and Apple Pie
If you were not at South by Southwest for day #2 of the Interactive sessions, you missed researcher Danah Boyd's truly insightful and thought provoking talk on an issue of critical importance to 21st...
View ArticleStephen Wolfram's "Galileo Moment"
Computation is mathematical poetry. That may not be self-evident, but when you hear Stephen Wolfram talk about it, there is little doubt. Wolfram arrived to a packed hall at the South by Southwest...
View ArticleSXSW Dispatch: Bina48 and the State of A.I. at 'South-by'
The topic of artificial intelligence was front and center at the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive Conference...the result, I suspect, of Apple launching Siri around the time the panels were...
View ArticleSXSW: Goodbye to All That
Cruising at 34,000 feet back to DC on Southwest flight 891, I'm taking some time to reflect on my days at SXSW2012. If you've never experienced the conference, let me tell you that it's hard to make it...
View ArticleAl Gore Takes on the Global Megacrisis
The Future - Six Drivers of Global Change, former Vice President Al Gore replied, "Random House came up with that title." It's not an auspicious beginning to a talk about the perils of the Global...
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