Why is it that we are all so gung ho about reinventing the wheel? Yes, I know that the dream you had last night about a triangular unicycle with bearings made out of specially engineered, Burmese balsa wood seemed pretty cool at the time but ask yourself whether it is really worth the dozens of [...]

Guess what. Just because we don’t have flying cars, doesn’t mean we aren’t living in The Future. It’s fascinating to me how many people refuse to admit any technological progress has occurred since Asimov and Orwell scrawled predictions about the magical, frightening, beautiful, perilous world we would one day be living in. It’s as if [...]