Let’s fore-go the "Oh, those kids!" shall we.  The LATimes begins an article reporting on the behavior of always-on teenagers by telling the story of a 15-year-old who sometimes stays connected to a friend by leaving his mobile with a bluetooth headset on all day. Whenever something comes up all they have to do is say, "Hey." Like an increasing ...

A survey of executives reported in a Technology Review blog predicts–what else?–more work in future. Not nose-to-the-grindstone, more like nose-to-the-Blackberry. Relates to discussions of work/life balance and "the creative class."

I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago and had a chance to read Richard Florida’s new book, The Flight of the Creative Class. I consider it a kind of companion piece to Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat (now a #1 best-seller) because Florida is talking, as is Friedman, about the role that well-educated knowledge and idea producing ...

It strikes me as somewhat ironic that one of the first practical and profitable uses for nanotechnology will be making delivery vehicles for chemotherapeutic agents. No, not itsy-bitsy submarines, but molecules that are designed to have an affinity for cancer cells. The idea is get more chemo to cancer cells and less to normal cells. From Eureka Alert: "This is ...