Weak Signals
For a long time now, observers of the American political sene have been pointing out how difficult it is to distinguish between what the Rpublican party stands for and what the Democratic party stands for.
"I Can See A Network For The Solar System By 2040"
He is the father of the Internet. But <b>Vinton Cerf</b> admits that when he, with his colleague Robert Kahn, invented TCP/IP - the computer language that gave birth to the Internet - he didn't know what he had unleashed. Currently Senior Vice-Presid
"You Can't Tell Computers From Humans In 50 Years"
On issues ranging from 21st century computers to the revenue model for the Net to the challenges facing the entrepreneur of tomorrow...
Dog-eared Floppy Disks, Anyone?
When humankind opens a new door, it does not necessarily close all the others. All the medical triumphs of this century have not wiped out alternative medicine, instant and processed food has not taken away the pleasure of fresh food, nor have speedy
"Focus On Education, Especially In Rural India"
McKinsey managing-director Rajat Gupta is a firm believer in quality. And adds two more words - culture and meritocracy - to his life dictionary. That's the way the Indian head of the world's most respected management consultancy firm measures class
"Rapid Communication Makes For A Better Language"
Poet, painter, writer and composer, Rabindranath Tagore (1861- 1941), is modern India's intellectual totem pole; our only Nobel laureate in literature. In a virtual interview with Ajith Pillai, the founder of Vishwa Bharati University answers questio
"America Is One Of The Most Fundamentalist Cultures"
An e-mail interview with Sandipan Deb and Paromita Shastri, Noam Chomsky answers queries on the future of ideology and the polity to come.
"The Net Will Bring The Biggest Change In The Child Student"
He is called the Nostradamus of the digital world. Dr Nicholas Negroponte studied at MIT where as a graduate student he specialised in the then new field of computer-aided design. He joined the Institute faculty in 1966 and was also a visiting profes
Some Other Mechanical Operations - A Note
Below are some of the areas where I have completed research for some new machines:
The Palette And Easel Of Destiny
Imagination can be footloose, or a third eye into the future. How did AD 2000 seem 100 years ago? In 1899, a cigarette company asked French artist Jean Marc Cote to do a set of visuals on the third millennium. The firm went bust, and the project sank
Will We Be Hung By The Net?
Rarely do people actually want to chat, mostly they are there to pick each other up and type sex together. How do you type sex? Well, you just imagine what you would be doing if you were really together, and type it on your qwerty keyboard.
First Take
My advice: look forward to next Saturday but hold the frenzy. And approach the future with both hope and humility.
Anonymous, Amorous, Asinine, Available
A wo/man’s search for cyber-intimacy yields a crop of the weird and the (few) wonderful
The Immortality Code
The science of cryonics claims that if you can freeze a dead man at ultra-low temperatures quickly, before the essential brain structures have degenerated, it will one day be possible to bring him back to life.
A Ladder Up Into The Open Blue
A thousand years from now, for the vast majority of the human race, the Home Planet may be a world of legends, lost among the star-fields of constellations we would never recognise.
Will We Ever Need To Have Sex Again?
Love has been, and will remain, the only device that works in sex.
"India Can Become A Developed Country"
In a freewheeling interview with Shantanu Guha Ray, Dr Kalam talks of his vision for India.