Many of us can’t wait for autonomous cars, and would pay a lot to have one and be freed up from the hassles of driving. State governments should welcome autonomous cars, too. As Sebastian Thrum convincingly argues , they’ll be safer than human-piloted ones. More miles driven by globe-warming cars is not great news for the globe. MORE >>

Notes from the April 11 talks at the Learning in a Digital Age Conference in Tallinn, Estonia. My presentation at the conference draws largely from these notes. Kelly Hodgkins - if you aren't plugged in you're going to be left behind - social media use - eg. Time is relative - depending on which side of the bathroom door you're on. Bourne' isn't. MORE >>

George Miller is best known forhis paper ‘ The magic number 7 plus andminus 2 ’ (1956) which focused attention (literally) on a problem thatplagues teaching and learning, the danger of ‘cognitive overload’. For thisreason alone, he deserves mention. Chunks Miller started by identifyingrelevant studies that show we remember ‘chunks’ of information. MORE >>

Photo: James Duncan Davidson. Last night Reggie Watts performed at TED@Doha, the first of TED’s Worldwide Talent Search events, during TEDxSummit. During rehearsal members of the TED staff caught up with him to talk about…whatever he wanted to talk about. saw you perform at TEDxGotham; some people just didn’t get your style. Really. MORE >>

I was honored to moderate a panel at   Innogive Conference on the intersection of social and mobile strategy. The  slides are here. His points were: Each person does a little, the community does a lot. Does” is any action – post, like, share, mobile photo,create – expressed via a social voice. Charlie the Artist. He creates eBay charity page. MORE >>