Technology & Innovation

$200 daily helicopter shuttles to and from work demonstrate that Wall Street is up and running again after the recession and plenty of traffic jams.

Google has announced it will select a city where it will install a super-fast Internet network; about 600 communities have already applied for the experiment to test the viability of such a network.

The Times and Sunday Times of London will begin charging for online subscriptions in June, a move that is meant to boost paper subscription sales.

The line between creative allusion and outright appropriation has always been a thin and unstable one, constantly being redrawn as our attitudes toward borrowing shift and change, and the Internet […]

Today marks the third installment of Big Think’s series on business sustainability, sponsored by Logica. For the next ten Mondays (through June 8, 2010), we will release in-depth discussions with top European […]

The Baltimore Sun’s Dan Rodicks asks, what’s wrong with a little class warfare? He says it’s important for America to talk about the “breathtaking divide” between rich and poor.

The Independent’s Robert Fisk has become the first Western journalist to interview Hafiz Muhammed Saeed, the man thought to have masterminded the Mumbai massacre.

All-knowing, user-generated, online encyclopedia Wikipedia is due for a massive makeover. So fear not, fact-finders, but get ready for a new look, new layout and new features.

Stupid criminals and Facebook just don’t go together says Chicago Tribune’s John Kass, remarking on the fate of an escaped burglar who set his status as “on da run…”

Are children in America are being over-diagnosed and over medicated by doctors, parents and schools more concerned to make them better behaved than for their wellbeing?

March 24th, for the past two years, has been a new kind of holiday: one created on the Web, with most celebrations occurring online, using technology to turn an eye […]

Australian car manufacturer Holden is hoping to develop a car fuelled by household waste such as food scraps and dirty diapers within the next two years.

The press didn’t just do a lousy job of explaining the stakes during the healthcare debates, they failed us on a much more fundamental level. According to the Columbia Journalism […]

Media’s big guys generally aren’t doing so well, but as last week’s State of the News Media report found, community and ethnic media continued to grow despite the economic downturn. […]

The International Monetary Fund warns that developed countries must cut back spending to sustain long-term economic growth, which means precious little in the short term.

Ahead of financial reform legislation that would give the Federal Reserve more regulative authority, Chairman Bernanke says the bailouts of 2009 must never be repeated.

Google’s recent spat with China over political censorship has brought to light Google’s reportedly transparent policy of censoring search results from many countries including Germany, Turkey and Thailand.

Ahead of proposed financial regulation legislation from the Senate, regulators are on pace to close more delinquent banks this year than in 2009 following Friday’s closure of seven banks in five different states which brings this year’s total to 37.

Today marks the second installment of Big Think’s new series on business sustainability, sponsored by Logica. For the next eleven Mondays (through June 8, 2010), we will release in-depth discussions […]

The problem with the current media environment—with its 24-hour news cycle and constant flow of breaking stories—may not be “too much information,” as we often hear, but rather “too much […]

In the 1960’s and 70’s, with Americans worried about Communist hordes and Nazism a living memory, many feared that people are just naturally sheep—all too ready to conform, cower and […]

Print is officially dead. I held out hope longer than most, but I knew it was all over yesterday when this ad appeared at my New York City subway stop: […]

Economic imbalances in China could be down to having too many Chinese men, remarks Financial Times columnist James Mackintosh, as daughters cost more than sons.

Fox News has been criticized by the White House for its perceived right-wing bias. It was surprising therefore that President Barack Obama yesterday gave an interview to the channel.

Though no one seems to know how the Google vs. China saga will unfold, all signs indicate Google’s exit is imminent. That could be bad news for internet freedom efforts […]

Just four years ago Sex.com was the internet’s costliest domain address, fetching $14 million. But as Sex.com goes on sale today, many doubt whether it can generate any excitement.

This is a guest blog post by Michael Schrage, a research fellow with the Sloan School of Management’s Center for Digital Business and a visiting fellow at Imperial College’s [London] […]

After the Federal Communications Commission unveiled its national plan for the future of broadband Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers began hailing it as a success that will shape the future of everything […]

The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism released its “State of the News Media 2010” report Monday, and amid the unsurprising facts and figures about the financial and personnel losses […]

“I got IPO” used to be the phrase that paid back when I was a stockbroker years ago. There was a certain segment of the investing population who would do […]