18 2025 September
The Future of Agriculture Is Peak Farmland + Growing Reforestation
Today, about half of the world’s land is used for farming. In the future, it could be far less–even as food production increases. As technology...
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29 2025 August
How “Dumbification” May Be the Next Hot Technology Trend
What happens when all the good TVs that you can buy in the market are automatically programed as “smart” TVs, ready to connect to the...
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13 2025 June
The Secret of Optimism and the New Peruvian Airport
Earlier this week when I arrived in Lima, it was in their brand new airport that is less than two weeks old. People in the city had...
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16 2025 May
Why 3D Fixables Could Create an Entirely New Sustainable Industry
Philips is beta testing a new platform that allows consumers to 3D print a replacement accessory for one of their electric shavers. Right now, it’s just one...
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18 2025 April
3 Powerful Talks from TED This Week That Are Already Available Live to Watch
The TED conference took place this past week and some of the talks have already been released. While most of the year the TED social...
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17 2025 April
Google Uses AI to Reimagine The Wizard of Oz (and Maybe the Future of Hollywood)
This past week, a closed group of attendees at a private Google event got a first look at an ambitious project that has been in...
Read Now10 2025 April
The Backstory of How Dubai’s Museum of the Future Was Imagined Is Worth Reading
Thirty percent of the visitors to the Museum of the Future in Dubai have never been to a museum before. That’s just one of the...
Read Now07 2025 April
How NFL’s New 8k “Hawk Eye” Cameras Offer an Interesting Model for Truth and Verification
Rather than relying on chains and the human eye to measure whether teams have achieved a first down in NFL football games next season, the...
Read Now27 2025 March
Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant Is Exactly What Anyone in Business Really Needs
This past month Adobe launched a super useful enhancement that I’ve been testing it for a bit. The Adobe AI Assistant has a number of...
Read Now20 2025 March
Unnecessary Enhancement and the Upscaling Backlash Against Netflix
What if everything doesn’t need to be better? A series of 80s shows originally released at a 4:3 aspect ratio and with non-HD level filming have been...
Read Now05 2025 March
The Subtle Master Plan Behind De Beers New DiamondProof In-Store Verification Device
A little over six months ago, De Beers Group announced the DiamondProof “diamond verification instrument” at a jewelry trade show in Las Vegas. The idea was that...
Read Now24 2025 February
This Genetic Engineering Startup Wants to Make Fluorescent Bunnies and Actual Unicorns
In case you needed more life imitating fiction, a startup known as The Los Angeles Project is using gene editing to experiment with doing some “crazy” things to...
Read Now19 2025 February
The Secret of Startup Success Might Be Who Is Willing to Lose Money the Longest
Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, Uber … all dominant players in their industry. What if the secret to their success is just that they were all willing...
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