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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 ...

Here’s a NYTimes article that says greater bandwidth and better equipment is improving the quality of desktop-to-desktop video for teleconferencing. So it’s possible to do better now than those Logitech cameras the size of a tennis ball that send fuzzy, herky-jerky images. I’m all for reducing travel by better and better communication. Send bits, not people I always say.

Google announced a new search feature that allows mobile phone users to search and retrieve web pages that have been written in code that formats them for mobile phone screens. They can also find images and SMS pages. Big deal? Well, if you’re trying to reach people with a message there are a heck of a lot of phones out ...