"As streams of information become more popular on the Web, we need better ways to consume and manage them."

"For decades, authentication has required cards and passwords. In the near future, you might just use a part of your body."

"Below we explain the evolution of the digital wallet and the beginning of the transformation from a cash-based society to one where currency lives in a digital form, in the devices we carry with us wherever we go."

"Moore's Law describes the phenomenon that makes this year's computer more capable and less expensive than last year's. But it won't go on forever. "

"Holographic and more advanced volumetric displays are just but a twinkle in scientists' eyes. True 3D projections for commercial or industrial uses is still years away. "

"The next phase of the the Internet will be about connecting things. The Internet of Things will be central to the infrastructure that we build."

"It has been a wild ride of a century full of expected wonders. Molecular manufacturing became a reality well before 2050, turning all sorts of once-valuable materials into commodities, and yes, we even eventually got flying cars."

"Audio of Levi Bryant's lecture, "Two Ontologies: Posthumanism and Lacan's Graph of Sexuation" which took place at Independent Colleges in Dublin on 3 July. Part 2 with responses from Paul Ennis and Michael O'Rourke will be available shortly.   "

The Third Industrial Revolution: How the Internet, Green Electricity, and 3-D Printing are Ushering in a Sustainable Era of Distributed Capitalism

New Inquiry Senior Editor Malcolm Harris talked with artist Alex Rivera. The writer-director of the 2008 sci-film Sleep Dealer, Rivera has been working with drones since the 1990s, when he piloted a small quad-copter called the Low Drone back and forth over the Mexican-American border.

I've been going through lots of changes behind the scenes that is leading me down a new path I call "scalable living."

The world just changed yesterday. You probably didn't notice. But I guarantee strategists at Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google did. What happened? Qualcomm shipped a new contextual awareness platform for cell phones.

*This piece was originally published, in Italian, in the exceedingly innovative (and very Italian) website "Che Futuro." *As somebody who spends a lot of time in non-Anglophone countries, this is a situation that I see commonly. I rarely see it as well-described as this.

America is transforming before our eyes, and with our focus on the short-term economic crisis, we are blind to what might very well be the most fundamental economic shift of the past 50 years: the nine-to-five, 40-hour-week job with benefits and some security is fast going the way of the compact disc.

For advanced economies, such imbalances would likely lead to more long- term and permanent joblessness. More young people without post-secondary training would fail to get a start in the job market and older workers would drop out because they don't qualify for jobs that are being created. The polarization of incomes between high- and low-skill workers could become even more pronounced, slowing the advance in national living standards, and increasing public-sector burdens and social tensions. In some advanced economies, less-skilled workers could very well grow up poorer than their parents, in real terms.