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Michael Zimmer, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University, has posted an interesting critique of our August 2005 issue. That issue was devoted to describing the social impact of some new technologies -...
Here are some initial thoughts about mesh networks. Tell me what I am missing or what I have got wrong. In particular, I would be interested in learning what constitutes a "low-bit" network and what a 'high-bit" network is in...
A big thank-you to all the readers who contributed to my exercise in participatory journalism--that is, helping me write my column on mesh networks. In particular, I owe a great debt to Roger Dennis, who suggested the column in the...
The most widely read story in Technology Review in 2005 so far was "Do You Want to Live Forever?," a profile of Dr. Aubrey de Grey, a British theoretical biologist and computer scientist at the University of Cambridge’s Department of...
Every year, Technology Review hosts the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. I sometimes say: I would love ETC even if it were not our own. I love it for its unembarrassed geekiness, I love it for the celebrity and interest...
This morning I introduced Dr. Susan Hockfield, the President of MIT, who kindly said a few words to our audience, before introducing Ed Zander, this morning's keynote speaker, and the CEO of Motorola. Zander loves devices, and he is keen...
Michael Moritz, a general partner at Sequoia Capital, and one of the most famous venture capitalists in the world, is chatting with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, an anchor at CNBC, about the dynamism of China and India. He is smitten with the...
Bill Joy, the inventor of Berkeley Unix, the founder of Sun Microsystems, and now a partner at Kleiner Perkins, that most blue-blooded of venture capital firms, is describing a taxonomy for the Internet. He calls it "the six Webs." I...
Slashdot has a discussion thread going about an Australian magazine's decision to charge its users an annual fee to post in the forums -- if they aren't magazine subscribers. The decision, as you can imagine, sent the netizens into a...
The Electronic Entertainment Expo happens May 16-20 in Los Angeles, and this year's confab promises to turn the home entertainment network on its head. Bill Gates said, according to this BBC article, that the Next-Box will be a digital hub...
