Ray Kurzweil has published a new book, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Ray is certainly a provocateur. Many of us in the Futuring and Innovation Center group saw him at the World Future Society meeting in Washington, DC, a few months ago. He firmly believes that if you can manage to hang in there another 20 years ...

A Frontline show on PBS, The Persuaders, is an interesting view of advertising and marketing. Actually it’s kind of scary. The reptilian brain is in control, not the rational brain, and "the persuaders" know how to coax it. Gives some insight about CRM also. If you missed it on PBS you can watch it online at the PBS site.

Excerpts from By Susan Raymond, Ph.D. An Aging Population Leans on the Arm of Its New Immigrants Life expectancy at birth, now about 73, will rise to over 86 years by mid-century. The better measure, however, is life expectancy at age 65 and at age 85 because this illustrates the true effect of aging on the productive work force. By ...

Last Tuesday I attended the California Healthcare Policy Forum down at Stanford. It was attended by a lot of representatives of biotech and pharmaceutical companies as well as policy people from CA government.