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The shift to digital will revolutionize television.
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A conversation with the contributing editor at Wired Magazine.
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Jobs’ rise to CEO was not a guarantee at the beginning.
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University of California at Berkeley has long been a hotbed of research on AI.
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Media today thrusts users into multiple levels of active experience.
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The Internet has created a way to tell stories that is uniquely suited to the medium.
Wired editor Frank Rose comes to Big Think tomorrow to discuss the changing landscape of media, entertainment and advertising. Post your questions for him here. With over 30 years in […]
How do great people get so much done? If you're Ben Franklin, you lay out a detailed schedule.
Q: How long would it take the average Walmart employee to earn as much as its CEO?
A: 1,000 years.
The Frankenstein metaphor that opponents of genetically modified food use to promote their fears is more apt than they realize. Yes, the monster is an unnatural life form created […]
I wrote a short post on Thursday suggesting that whether you’re a fan or a sworn enemy of the surveillance state, you’d be wrong to condemn the pending prosecution of […]
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Author Francine Prose uncovers some unexpected things about the young diarist—most notably that her diary wasn’t a diary at all, but a heavily edited and re-written memoir.
It's knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it's not magic that powers AI though; it's just math and data.
The man who first demonstrated the power of neural networks introduces capsule networks.
Interview with Jason Silva by Frank Rose One afternoon recently I spent a couple of hours with Jason Silva, the longtime Current TV host who’s been making much-talked-about micro-videos about the […]
Philosophers rarely change their minds. These thinkers did — often at social and professional cost.
In “On Liberalism," Cass Sunstein argues that liberalism can only endure if we reclaim its core commitments and revive its spirit of freedom and hope for the future.
In this excerpt from "Facing Infinity," Jonas Enander examines how John Michell conceived of "dark stars," or massive bodies with enough gravity to trap light, all the way back in 1783.
Some books are remembered for their lyrical prose or engaging stories. Others are remembered for simply being weird.
The "Doctor Strange" director says mystery shifts your worldview — "not in a metaphorical sense, but in a deeply experiential one."
These books helped build the empirical case that life's origins differ from those described in myths and legends.
From acclaimed novels to heretical treatises, sometimes a writer just doesn't want to put their name on the cover.
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in physics. They're more than mathematical structures. They help describe the Universe.
Many beloved fantasy adventures take place in worlds that bear a striking resemblance to our own.
Life arose on Earth early on, eventually giving rise to us: intelligent and technologically advanced. "First contact" still remains elusive.
Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower is poised to become the world’s tallest building. What’s behind the century-plus drive to build ever taller skyscrapers?
Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where's everyone else?
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world's greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.