We are going to see advanced automation via even humanoid robots. This is an amazing bit of engineering. Last Saturday I stopped in an ordinary Asian Bistro restaurant – and…

I do not yet understand the details on this: It is the latest example of a growing global movement to experiment with the concept of a four-day workweek. Source: Microsoft…

My Mom was 41 years old when I was born at tail end of “baby boom”L While fertility rates dropped from 1990 to 2019 overall, the decline was regarded as…

This is a huge strategic shift as CVS announces it will gradually close 10% of its stores, as sales increasingly shift to online, and convert other stores to health clinics…

For the most part, how the news is reported to the consumer has changed little in decades, perhaps a century. When the Internet became available, television stations began to offer…

“Travel broadens us because we learn by our successes. When you’re in a new place you are having all kinds of new and exciting experiences: communicating in a different language,…

The problem with reliance on models and simulations: "Model-land is a hypothetical world in which our simulations are perfect, an attractive fairy-tale state of mind in which optimising a simulation…

Some of the best inventors I know didn’t have a deep knowledge of any particular technology. They had a deep understanding of what the need is and what we would…

Spotted at a National Park. Cell phone WiFi signals are being used, optionally, to determine movement and locations of people within the park, for use in future planning.