Is there a future to blogging? Well, here’s an article that suggests that blogging has room to innovate and evolve. The author suggests that it’s time for blogs to begin digging into niche topics and narrower markets of people: local discussions or just relevant, timely information about specific topics. Like cancer? Maybe. Like Relay? Maybe. And technology is not standing ...

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Seems like a banner day. First stem cells, now Intel is announcing in Nature they have found ways to build fiber optics into chips using fairly conventional materials and techniques. This should make it possible to bring down the cost of high-bandwidth telecommunications gear radically. Paul S. Otellini, the president of Intel, said on Wednesday: “Think of it either bringing ...

Wired News is reporting that it was announced at the AAAS meeting that an article to be published in the Feb. 13 Science will show that researchers have managed to produce a human clone by nuclear transfer that is the first one reported to have produced hundreds of stem cells. No sperm, no embryo from fertilization. This is a huge ...