Blogs

Frustrated by historically low interest rates, small investors are finding that traditional financial institutions are unable to provide them with satisfactory levels of income.   What if people could easily find qualified borrowers and make their own loans directly?

Scarcity is defined as an economic condition that arises when people have far greater wants than the available resources. Most often we think about the limited supplies of natural resources, but it includes far more than that.

Celebrity Apprentice has crowned a new Trump champion, a faux partner in the business of celebritizing business. So it's time to see if there are in fact any teachable moments. I count six lessons to learn (or unlearn).

Here are the online articles and essays that I feel are useful for bringing “newbies” up to speed on some of the main currents of modern transhumanist / radical-futurist / Singularitarian thinking, science and technology.

WorldFuture 2012, the annual conference of the World Future Society, is your opportunity to take part in the biggest discussions of our day.

Register before the price goes up, so you don't miss your chance to meet...

Disney's EPCOT Center pays tribute to Walt Disney’s dream of what the city of the future might look like, or more accurately what that city might contain. This "Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow" would have plenty of robots, to be sure. He envisioned a city that would entertain, inform, foster human connection and collaboration, improve overall quality of life, and serve its inhabitants...And though the two parts of EPCOT are separated from one another for the sake of entertainment, staging and creating the magic for which Disney is so very famous, it’s in the meshing of these two images that a more accurate "city of tomorrow" is realized.

For colleges and universities, the great age of experimentation is now upon us. Harvard and MIT recently announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities.

The Minerva Project recently announced it will become the first elite American University to be launched in over a century, at the same time, transforming every aspect of the university-student relationship. The Ronin Institute is promising to reinvent academia, but without the academy.

On February 29, 2012, Iran’s Alborz Space Center, with much public fanfare, was opened to the international media for the first time. Situated 40 miles west of Tehran, the space facility is one of the keystones of the country’s ambitious space program, which has plans to land an astronaut on the moon by 2025.

The Internet is lit up with hand-wringing about a referendum in North Carolina regarding the passage of a referendum aimed at making gay marriage illegal in the state forever more. On Facebook, Twitter and in the comments sections of all the usual Internet hangouts, well-thinking people are lamenting this step toward a new Dark Ages, a further deepening of injustice, a coarsening of society.

While a solo unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is starting to become a common sight over war zones and, to a lesser extent, over civilian communities, researchers in Germany are taking on the next great challenge: UAVs that fly in pack formations.