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Self-driving hobbyists and researchers can now build a self-driving vehicle for around $700. Utilizing free software and hardware plans from George Hotz's startup Comma, brave enthusiasts are crowdsourcing solutions as we move towards more autonomous vehicles.
The Silver Lining, a new strategy book from innovation guru Scott Anthony at Cambridge-based Innosight, is a valuable playbook for bringing disruptive innovation into the enterprise at a time when […]
Even when leaders know disruption is a smart long-term decision, the pain of transition can produce a titanic shambles. Just ask Kodak.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
It’s been 65 years since Richard Feynman saw “plenty of room” in the nano-world. Are we finally getting down there?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
"She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
Through humility, the old arrogance of infallibility crumbles. And in that there is genuine hope to prevent wrongful convictions.
His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.
Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
They had the technology. So why didn't they use it?
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don't know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
Aptera expects to begin delivering its solar-powered car later in 2022.
Digital nomads can fully immerse themselves in their surroundings while advancing their career and stimulating the local economy. But there is one potential downside.
One home was printed in 28 hours. Now, Alquist 3D is building 200 more.
Forget little green men: These scientists say we should be more worried about little green germs.
Technology usually has more pros than cons, but every benefit still carries some risk.
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
Identity politics has become a highly contentious element within modern political discourse. Those who support this approach believe it bolsters the presence and power of those who would otherwise be […]
Words of wisdom from H.P. Lovecraft, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dr. Temple Grandin, Hannah Gadsby and more.
An information war is being waged.
The National Institutes of Health hopes synthetic biology can engineer vaccines that outperform nature.
Ever smell a durian fruit? Don't. Think of it as nature's stinky battery.
Before you judge someone's personality based in their playlist, you may want to read the results of this study.
Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer's disease at bay.
It has experts baffled.
These great thinkers remind us that taking an unpopular, bold stance might not be madness.
The astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded a special Breakthrough prize for discovering pulsars in the 1960s.
The Russian intelligence agency KGB was legendary for its spycraft, violent methods, and far-reaching influence on world affairs.