What is it about the new year that gets minds to speculating about the future? (See the NYTimes article about the future of the Net, for instance.) Last week Mike Mitchell brought to FICenter members’ attention the ideas that had been posted at Edge: The World Question Center asking people to answer the question: “What do you believe is true ...

NYTimes article on prognostications about Internet futures. The survey (Pew Internet Life) results solidly confirm what media watchers may already know (and perhaps fear): that the Internet and the rise of the blogger are expected to drive greater change in the news media and publishing industries than in any other sector of society. Internet specialists also expect broad changes in ...

David Neff has been working on a handheld cancer tool for physicians. Maybe we need to be looking at the potential of PDAs for the general public too. With a personal digital assistant and a bit of software, you can now hold volumes of information about nutrition, exercise, health, calories and carbs literally in the palm of your hand. Contemplating ...

From the WP: Readership of online journals known as blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released Sunday. Twenty-seven percent of online adults in the United States said in November they read blogs, compared with 17 percent in a February survey by the ...