Flexible E-Paper: Plastic circuits drive paperlike displays: Science News Online, Jan. 31, 2004 Something Tom Willner brought to our attention. Cool, but can you line the bottom of a birdcage with it?

Some IT gurus gathered at Harvard the other day to discuss offshoring, outsourcing, etc., etc. Nothing new in that, but one intriguing idea got discussed toward the end: the 24-hour knowledge factory. That is, if companies have branches or contractors around the world they can work on projects 24/7. At one guy put it: …Gupta described his dream: a twenty-four-hour ...

Is it just me or does the topic of aging, longevity, anti-aging and even immortality seem to be popping up everywhere? It could be me because I think this is right up there in the top four or five world-shaking forces shaping the future, and I’m researching the aforementioned subjects. But in the Sunday supplement to my local paper an ...

This article points to the growing success of online fundraising. It’s still not a big proportion of total fundraising, but it’s making progress. One dilemma is that most visions of fundraising are based on Web site principles that haven’t changed in the past 4 or 5 years. But broadband has reached the tipping point during 2003 and into 2004. What ...