Bill and Melinda Gates want academic research to be free for all. They feel so strongly about it that The Gates Foundation (@gatesfoundation), which reportedly spends $900 million per year on scientific research, will (beginning in two years) only fund research that...
The world of the TV set is dying even faster than we thought when we published our NextBrief [link] last March. Check out a new video summation of where TV is heading here [link]. Without doubt, the rate of change in the TV world this year has been dizzying, as...
I’m betting you like your home, but is your home “conscious” yet? That question, really, comes from Tony Fadell (and Matt Rogers), who are the founders of the Nest (@nest) company [link]. That’s the company which created a user-friendly...
In newly built (or renovated) homes in developed countries, it’s not unusual to have thermostats that control when different parts of the house are heated or cooled. A step beyond that are more computerised thermostats that can sense whether anyone is in a room or not...
In their overview blog post from Techonomy 2012, Sarah Evelyn Harvey and Adrienne Burke describe it as “a conference about how the exponential pace of technology process makes possible a new world. We are gathering a diverse group of expert voices for a...
