Briefs and Notes

My (Fake) Interview with Apple CEO Tom Cook

A lot of people are wondering about Apple these days, and so when I found CEO Tom Cook alone in the corner of a Taco Bell just off California Highway 17, I realized it was...

Special Letter: An Innovator's Handbook: Dealing with the FDA

We have been delving into the future of biology, genetics, healthcare, evolutionary theory, biofeedback systems, neurophysiology, brain-inspired computing, the Quantified...

What Will Go Wrong: A Cyber Warning

I asked my friend Joi Ito, now head of the MIT Media Lab, what he thought of a certain Japanese prime minister. Without a moment's hesitation, he answered: "BM, or AM?"...

Technology and the Global Economy: Predictions for 2015 Landscapes

I really love doing this stuff, as you all know. I try to do it in two different ways. I try to talk about the landscapes we're looking at first, kind of give a shared view...

A Centerpiece Conversation with Mark Hurd

Mark Anderson interviewed Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, and the two cover such topics as cloud computing, Platform as a Service, security, data center management, and hardware and...

The Ultimate Biocomputer: Brain or Cell? Part II

Think like Richard Feynman, imagining the very, very small ("nano") nature of all of the cell's chemicals, structures, and operations.

Is the Net at Risk?

Anyone paying attention has to be asking the question: Is the Internet today more useful to those intending good, or to those intending harm? For cybertheft, or for...

The Ultimate Biocomputer: Brain or Cell?

If we are to understand brains well enough to create brain-inspired technologies, we need to understand their process of self-assembly, as well as how neurons work. Today,...

Special Letter: On the Commercialization of Graphene and Other Nanomaterials

A new paradigm is emerging for advanced nanomaterials and their use in commercial products. We call it “molecular precision manufacturing” (MPM), and it is evolving as a...

CES and the IoT

This week, as 160,000 vendors, buyers, and spies roam the aisles of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), it seemed like the right time to write about the Internet of Things...
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