They don’t need to keep defending market economies against communism, as this issue was settled with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union , which happened when they were little or even before they were born.  The Boomers keep replaying the ideological and cultural battles with which they grew up.  MORE >>

The November issue of the MIT Technology Review featured a provocative article, Why We Can’t Solve Big Problems , written by its editor in chief Jason Pontin.  Kennedy issued a challenge to the nation: . The need for high bandwidth, robust national broadband infrastructures is but one such example. But why, some say, the moon?  MORE >>

The key question is whether new industries and job creation will eventually follow as has been the case in the past.  Why have digital technologies achieved such breakthrough advances in just the past few years, including  Watson , IBM’s question-answering system that earlier this year won the Jeopardy! We think it?s players.  The U.S. MORE >>

began using WordStar and ran into an issue pretty quickly. ” So, it’s 1982 and you have a programming question. left a message along the lines of “I’m a random stranger with a basic question about a programming language you probably never heard of, so would you mind calling me back? ComputerCloset. MORE >>

For example, the return on assets (ROA) of US companies, - a general indicator of profitability, -  has been progressively falling and is now almost one quarter its 1965 levels.  We can be systematic in our search techniques and scenario planning, but often we’re at a loss for what questions to ask, much less what to look for.  MORE >>