Übergeek Ray Kurzweil lays it all out for the next 25 years. And he’s been right before. By the 2020s, most diseases will go away as nanobots become smarter than current medical technology. Normal human eating can be replaced by … Continue reading
“A man, a plan, and an aerosol can.” armed with ink and imagination, a vancouver street artist has stenciled a series of street art compositions in and around his urban surroundings. each image shares a relationship to a particular aspect … Continue reading
AutoCAD changed the world with software driven mechanical design. Now they seek to do the same thing with biological life. Enter Project Cyborg, an exciting new undertaking aimed at expanding on the limited tools available to synthetic biologists in their … Continue reading
Boeing and the University of Washington partner on an advanced engineering center. Boeing and the University of Washington are taking their collaboration to greater heights with a new campus research center where doctoral engineering students, UW professors and Boeing engineers … Continue reading
How to hear your way to happiness. “We are finding that sound is affecting not just the perception of our body shape but our physical capabilities. Understand these sounds and we could change our feelings in a positive way.” The … Continue reading
Where does imagination come from anyway? New research shows it’s more complex than we ever, uh, imagined. There’s a lot we still don’t know about how the brain generates new ideas. Brain mapping is in its infancy, and creativity is … Continue reading
Some fascinating background on the design process of converting Boeing’s Renton factory to an office “building within a building” and bringing it close to the manufacturing action. When Boeing, the world’s largest plane manufacturer, started designing a new version of … Continue reading
Why you should stop pursuing happiness and go for more. Why do we experience such a disconnect between what we know to be true in the abstract and what we believe is true for us? I think a big part … Continue reading
Innovation rarely comes from a flash of brilliant insight. Here’s where they do come from. We tend to think of inventors as another species—geniuses—who have sudden flashes of insight. I can’t think of a single instance when a light bulb … Continue reading
5 tips to get you through your fear of extemporaneous speaking. If it’s true that many people fear public speaking more than death, it’s equally true that businesspeople are condemned to a thousand small deaths in client pitches, in boardrooms, … Continue reading