GM’s Christopher Borroni-Bird on the Future of Cars
In this excerpt from the “Transportation, Technology, and Retrofitting Cities” session at Techonomy 2011, GM’s Director of Advanced Vehicle Concepts Christopher Borroni-Bird discusses advances in automotive technology that will …
What We Can Expect from Chinese Technology
In this last segment of my video interview in China with Kai-Fu Lee, the Innovation Works CEO tells me that mobile applications are the next area of growth in …
The Hottest Holiday Gadgets for the “Self-Tracker” on Your Shopping List
Is your husband obsessed with a good night’s sleep? Does your wife count every calorie? Is your father-in-law “taking charge of his health?” If so, this holiday season you …
What We Can Expect from Chinese Technology
In this last segment of my video interview in China with Kai-Fu Lee, the Innovation Works CEO tells me that mobile applications are the next area of growth in …
Sebelius Urges Patient Empowerment through Mobile Health Technology
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told an audience at the mHealth Summit, a convention on mobile medical devices in Washington this week, that the Obama administration supports …
How Smartphone Apps and Social Networks Will Revolutionize Medicine
Self-obsessed citizen scientists who use gadgets like the FitBit and Up by Jawbone to track their own health data and engage in group experiments online have piqued media interest …
Why China’s Weibos Work Better Than Twitter
In part three of my video conversation with Kai-Fu Lee at September’s World Economic Forum conference in Dalian, China, I ask the Innovation Works CEO if the Chinese Weibos …
Now Every Company Is A Software Company
The future of big industry can be seen through a little technology company in Silicon Valley. Sunnyvale-based Picarro, with 90 employees, has developed a highly accurate mobile measurement device …
Paul Allen Is a Proponent of Open Science Data, But You Need a Subscription to Find Out Why
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen argues in today’s Wall Street Journal that scientific data should be open and free for all to access. He suggests that government agencies and private …
How Innovation Works Is Surfing the Internet Wave in China
In part two of my interview with Innovation Works CEO Kai-Fu Lee at September’s World Economic Forum conference in Dalian, China, I ask him about the growing enthusiasm for …
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Peter Thiel Goes Nonprofit: New Fund Will Back Breakthrough Science
In the six days since Peter Thiel announced the launch of Breakout Labs, Executive Director Lindy Fishburne has fielded legitimate inquiries from nearly 100 researchers and entrepreneurs.
30 Million Followers: Kai-Fu Lee on China’s Weibos
I recently spent two weeks in China, and was blown away by the technologization proceeding there in headlong fashion. I spent a lot of time with Internet companies and …
Mike Daisey Is Mad at Steve Jobs, and He Wants You To Get Mad Too
Amidst the hagiography and hand-wringing about Apple’s future that followed Steve Jobs’s death, a short piece called “Against Nostalgia” appeared in The New York Times.
Take Back the City: Gary Hustwit’s Urbanized
Urbanized bounces from New York, Rio, Mumbai, and Beijing to New Orleans, Santiago, Brighton, and Bogotà, asking some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, and policymakers what they are …
Games That Solve Real Problems: Crowdsourcing Biochemistry
Adrien Treuille, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, creates online challenges that tap gamers to solve complex scientific problems.
Crowdsourcing Scientific Progress: How Crowdflower’s Hordes Help Harvard Researchers Study TB
Crowdflower executive chairman Lukas Biewald says his company’s bread and butter is the repetitive digital tasks that it contracts out to workers over the Internet for Fortune 500 tech …
Citizen Science Takes Off: Could Community Labs Hatch the Next Generation of Bio Innovators?
Get ready for “citizen science” to transform bioscience. In mid-October, 28-year-old Eri Gentry opened BioCurious, a nonprofit public-use biology laboratory in Sunnyvale, Calif., with 2,400 square feet of “hacker …
Occupy Social Media: Voices from Zucotti Park
Techonomy’s Adam Ludwig spoke with members of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York’s Zucotti Park on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011.
Why One Recent Williams College Graduate is Occupying Wall Street
Techonomy’s Adam Ludwig spoke with Sasha Macko, a volunteer with Avaaz.org, at Occupy Wall Street in New York’s Zucotti Park.
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