New DNA Sequencing Technology Could Fuel Precision Medicine
One major obstacle to precision medicine for all? The cost of sequencing each person’s genome. New sequencing startups could change that.
Moore's Law
When Moore Is Not Enough – Why Our Growing Networks Require More Software
The demand for communications bandwidth is expanding faster each year. We’re entering a stage where just Moore’s Law and faster and cheaper computing power will simply not be enough. The networks themselves need to become...
Making Dumb Things Smart
Our physical world is now technology-enabled by the digitization of everything from books to movies to tools—such as the flashlights, cameras, calculators, day planners, music players, and bus schedules that now reside on our smartphones....
Jaron Lanier on Facebook and the Creepy Possibilities for Virtual Reality
When Facebook announced last week that it had agreed to acquire Oculus VR, “the leader in virtual reality technology,” for $2 billion, techies and journalists everywhere wondered: What does Jaron Lanier think of this? Lanier,...
What’s Next in the Techonomy?
In the last few decades, we have witnessed exponential technological growth and change. However, as we enter the second half of the metaphorical chessboard, it remains unclear how that technology will reshape our economy, political...
Consumer Genetics Starts to Pay Off
One of the biggest hopes when the $3 billion Human Genome Project launched two decades ago was that it would one day put lots of basic genetic information into the hands of the general public....
Why Drug Development is Failing – and How to Fix It
The information technology industry has been living by Moore’s Law ever since 1965, when Intel co-founder Gordon Moore came up with the rule of thumb that the number of integrated circuits that can be placed...