Fascinating article about the historical reality of how technology from the Apollo moon missions changed us.

Interesting article about what happens to some of our kids when they spend a lot of time with technology.

This article discusses some of the real-life effects of technology in the classroom on things like motivation, confidence, and collaboration.

This article is great considering we are all participating in distance education. It discusses the changes that are occurring and will occur in the future as a result of this technology.

Interesting article that discusses how VR technology can be helpful in training physicians for surgery, especially minimally invasive procedures.

An article about a new virtual technology to help seniors be more independent by using a robot to interface with them.

Interesting article about the social aspect of teenagers on the internet. Not so much about the darker aspects but about the "garden variety" relationships and how they affect kids.

I am always on the lookout for stories featuring past predictions of the future impacts of technology on society and how closely they mirrored reality. So I was quite happy to find a couple of recent articles, one in BusinessWeek and the other in the discussing technology predictions made by the CIA in 1962 and by a group of futurologists in 1988.

Something happened on Earth Thursday that scientists believe the planet hasn't experienced in as many as three to five million years. Atop the Mauna Loa Observatory on the Big Island of Hawaii, sensors tracking all the substances swirling around in Earth's atmospheric soup are -- for the first time -- recording carbon dioxide at levels higher than at any time in human history.

While some members of Congress might have been excited to try on Google's Glass this week , others are concerned about their privacy implications. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and seven other members of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus have sent a letter to Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page requesting answers to a series of privacy questions and concerns raised by the camera-equipped glasses.