Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of ….

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approxim….

To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling ….

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and ….

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the ….

As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new ….

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today..

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept..

Nature stopped being natural decades ago..

Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it..

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive..

Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real..

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter wat….

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control..

Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming d….

The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We ….

The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from t….

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainp….

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too..

Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way….

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told..