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Towards 2016: The Future of American Elections
Democracy requires participation. Only 55 percent of registered voters vote in major U.S. elections. Voting laws are meanwhile getting even more restrictive and locally unique, thanks in part to recent Supreme Court revisions to the...
What the Dormouse Says Now
If the counterculture of the late 50’s and 60’s was the progenitor of the PC industry and all it led to, what kind of “culture” is driving the evolution of information technology today? Are those...
From Combat Soldier to Social Entrepreneur
Yanki Margalit of SpaceIL speaks about his evolution from a child of war to an entrepreneurial adulthood. Read the full transcript below. (Transcript by Realtime Transcription.) Kirkpatrick: So now, we have this thing we do...
Business Infinity
Challenges and opportunities confront business from every direction, in ways that change almost hourly. Business models and ecosystems are being upended, disruptors emerge from the tiniest and least noticed corner, customers and employees demand new...
Where Are the Jobs?
Companies have very specific ideas about what they want, and what they need, to survive and thrive in a global economy that grows more interconnected and interdependent every day. Who better to ask about who’s...
No PhD Required: Science Goes Grassroots
“Citizen science” is trendy. From keynote presentations at major scientific conferences to official recognition from the White House, citizen science seems to be everywhere. But what exactly is it? Broadly defined, citizen science covers any...
Innovation, Timing, and the Technology of the Brain
Kurzweil: In the ’70s, I was running my first company, major company. We invented the flat-bit scanner and OCR. And I had this vision: “I’m going to build this up to be Xerox,” which was...
Furnishing the Technological Experience
Anderson: Well, good afternoon. How are the chairs working out? You figured out how to adjust them? Again, my name is Ryan. I’m the director of future technology at Herman Miller. You might wonder what...
Andrew Hessel of Singularity University on Biotech and Procreation
In this short talk from Techonomy 2011 in Tuscon, Ariz., Andrew Hessel, Co-Chair of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology at Singularity University, describes how his work engineering the genome has shifted his views on human reproduction in...