Technopolis

 I don't know whether if was a suggestion, rumor or something that actually happened , but when I was studying political theory at B...

In a plaza in Oslo today some 40,000 Norwegians gathered in to sing a song, "Barn av Regnbuen," Children of the Rainbow. ...

Today I noticed one pink azalea in front of my home in Chatham, New York.  Usually, at this time of year, hundreds of flowers sprout fro...

If the disaster at Fukushima were not enough, it turns out that the perpetually dismal economic profile for nuclear power has gotten even w...

The news from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant seems to get worse day-by-day, more than a year after the calamitous earthquake, tsunami ...

At present the Prado Museum in Madrid has a wonderful collection of art on loan from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.  At the very end of t...

During the late 1970s within scholarly and political debates about technology and society, one of the key topics was “the future of work.”...

  Especially as I monitor the discussions in the ongoing presidential campaign, it seems that the U.S.A. has finally become unhinged -- dis...

Occasionally the doors to the research laboratories in Silicon Valley and other high tech centers open just a crack to reveal what the ...

                               It's our damned song now, matey!  We stole it fair and square . One of the many amusing features of the...

        Workers at Foxconn making Steve Jobs' wonderful iPhone  During one of those end of the year 2011 wrap-up programs on the BBC, s...

                                                         Don Van Vliet, Captain Beefheart The legacy of Don Van Vliet, his art and music, ...

                   Joseph Stalin -- patron saint of  software "anti-piracy" gulag As a little boy growing up in 1950s California...

                                     Cartoon  of "Our Friend the Atom" from the 1950s                                            ...