Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technolog...
Today, technology asks too much of people.
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
With the advancement in e-reading technology, I was curious if it were possible for readers to be able to hear the actual songs while reading the book. I contacted Amazon and discussed the idea with their Kindle team, and they were very enthusiastic ...
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communicati...
The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.
I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.
If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?
Long before the first primitive dot matrix printers started cranking out phenomenally ugly text with a resolution marginally better than braille, it's been a basic tenet of printing that words and pictures can be broken into dots. The corollary is th...
I'm not a technology person.
We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
