Technopolis

Traveling in Spain recently, I came across the audacious free software project, LinEx, sponsored by Extremadura, an autonomous region (s...

Maybe it's the light -- a view from San Francisco To hear Governor Schwarzenegger and other voices of the far right describe the m...

Digital democracy teach-in While I remain largely skeptical about the prospects for digital democracy, there have been some interesting...

Doubters take note: At last the tax cuts are producing new jobs! (in Bangalore) I'll have to admit that Bush and his economists we...

"Shocked! Shocked, I say!" -- scientists catch on to Bush's science scams Well, it's only taken three years, but fin...

Same sex marriage -- a jazz musician's comment Last Monday my old buddy Charlie took me and my twin boys to the Jazz Standard, a wo...

Watch for falling wages! (and jobs moving south) Those who've bought into the rhetoric and enthusiasm of globalization can, I supp...

Why didn’t I think of that? Speaking at the very important World Economic Forum held in Davos recently, Bill Gates, the world’s riches...

The Internet giveth and the Internet taketh away .... Alas, the same Internet that helped propel Howard Dean to prominence is now helpin...

The promise of nanotechnology clarified It's time for me to apologize for all those years I spent as a technology skeptic. The mo...

Citizen participation included in nanotechnology legislation Readers of last spring's "Technopolis" may recall news that t...

The meaning of the WTC "Freedom Tower"? At the same moment that public officials and architects proudly unveil the ghastly, ...

Willie Nelson's new Christmas song From the Austin American Statesman: Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth December 30, 2003 ...

The destruction of Christiania? One of the most successful and well-organized of hippie-style alternative communities is Christiania i...

Have a secure Christmas and police state New Year As I waited in line at my local U.S. post office today, I read a notice announcing t...

Finally confirmed: PowerPoint makes you stupid I've seen it countless times. Otherwise intelligent colleagues, students and leade...

Comparing responses to Sputnik and 9/11 Michael Halloran, professor of rhetoric and colleague at Renssealear, offers a thoughful compa...

Sorrows of Empire: grim diagnosis from a noted political scientist An excerpt from Chalmers Johnson's new book, The Sorrows of Emp...

Constitution? We don't need no stinking Constitution! General Tommy Franks, leader of U.S. forces in the war on Iraq, has an inter...

London protesters use mobile technology to ruin Bush PR images Here’s a story from the BBC about clever attempts to ruin the scenic sp...

Smithsonian celebrates weapons of mass destruction The shameful history of attempts to exhibit the Enola Gay, the airplane that dropped...

The global spread of HIV A map prepared by the BBC provides graphic depiction of the spread of HIV AIDS around the world. There is muc...

More on global warming From CNN today : WASHINGTON (AP) -- Melting of glaciers in the Patagonian ice fields of southern Argentina a...

Phytoplankton vanishing at a rate that alarms scientists Were it not for reassurances from the Bush administration that global warming ...

Clash of civilizations -- Wesley Clark's view of the preparations The Village Voice has a story by Sydney H. Schanberg about a new b...

Closing the Chatrooms A fairly large piece of Internet utopia is closing down. As reported by Reuters, Microsoft is draining the sewer...

Terrorizing America's climate scientists There’s new evidence of Bush administration attempts to bully E.P.A. scientists studying gl...

Thoughts on Howard Dean I went down to the City of Hudson for a Howard Dean rally this afternoon. While I've always had a favo...

Your Daily Dose of Fear from Bush (don’t worry, children, he’ll protect us) Social scientists and concerned citiizens have begun paying...

Edward Teller's "contributions" Edward Teller, 95, physicist and tireless Cold War advocate for nuclear armaments, die...

The Bush administration's attack on the environment Bill Moyer's recent interview for Grist , reprinted in The Utne Reader off...

GMOs: The less information the better? Heeding complaints by the United States, Canada and Argentina, the Word Trade Organization has ...

Energy wake-up call? Quick! Hit the snooze button! Julian Borger's article in The Guardian does a fine job of summarizing what i...

Your energy wake-up call I was on the BBC Newshour this afternoon, talking about America's excessive expectations about energy. H...

Better late than never: debunking Powell’s U.N. dog and pony show Last February, Colin Powell appeared before the U.N. Security Council ...

Anti-Globalization Woodstock in Southern France Here's a story from The Age , an Australian newspapger, one that's not likely ...

Underming the objectivity of science policy An important quest in post-Kuhnian philosophy and sociology has been to cast doubt on stan...

Progress on the March (continued) -- A summer camp for computer addicts Sorry to have been away from the weblog for a while. I've b...

So this is progress: human hybrids in the lab As reported in the Washington Post , scientists have recently produced an ethically dubio...

New logic for Bush leaguers As quoted in the Boston Globe , Ari Fleischer recently issued the following challenge on the missing weapo...