One Hundred Emerging Technologies

As the World Economic Forum annual Top Ten Emerging Technologies reaches it’s tenth year, here’s how it all started A couple of weeks ago, the World Economic Forum annual list of Top Ten Emerging Technologies reached its tenth anniversary. Co-published...

David Chang, Hulu, and the Future of Food

Hulu does Food and the Future … and does it pretty well! A few weeks ago, a colleague sent me a link to Hulu’s new food series The Next Thing You Eat with chef David Chang. What caught their eye — and mine — was the series’ claim to be...

Chaos and Complexity

Chaos and Complexity With this year’s Nobel Prize for physics going to three scientists working on climate science and complexity theory, there’s been renewed interest in complex systems and how our understanding of them can help guide how we positively...

Editorial Encounters and Musk Machinations

“You can’t publish that” said my wife. “People will think you can’t write!” My wife was reading the final draft of an article about Elon Musk’s just-announced Tesla Bot, and she wasn’t impressed. The article was prompted...

Undisciplined Academics

When disciplinary titles simply don’t hack it any more! Last week I was interviewed by a journalist writing for the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal about Chief Information Officers and ethics. As is usual with these conversations, one of their parting...