Journalism
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The Butterfly Effect
Striking a blow against climate change, San Francisco scientists are working to return the iconic Xerces blue from extinction.
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Why it’s a mistake to bet against Silicon Valley
The latest wave of tech companies quitting California may have mistaken what makes it a center of innovation: its ability to capitalize on its luck.
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Tiny Chips, Big Headaches
As the largest computer networks continue to grow, some engineers fear that their smallest components could prove to be an Achilles’ heel.
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Massachusetts Start-Up Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion
The company, founded by scientists at M.I.T., has been testing an extremely powerful magnet necessary to generate immense heat.
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These Materials Could Make Science Fiction a Reality
Metamaterials, which could improve smartphones and change how we use other technology, allow scientists to control light waves in new ways.
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A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans
A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention.
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You Can’t Spell Creative Without A.I.
Advances in software applications that process human language lie at the heart of the debate over whether computer technologies will enhance or even substitute for human creativity.
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Access to Success
The “Whole Earth Catalog" was a 1960s publishing sensation. It happened because its creator was given a chance to fail.
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Stewart Brand and the Soul of Silicon Valley’s Soul
John Markoff on the misunderstood values of Stewart Brand
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Fear And Loathing In Big Sur
Who would hire Hunter S. Thompson to take care of a rustic Big Sur coastal estate? That ill-advised decision led directly to the founding of the famed Esalen retreat.
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A Step Toward Fusion Energy Is Hailed
Zap Energy said its experimental reactor core was ready for a milestone test. Skeptics routinely question whether the technology is currently possible.
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Can Xerox’s PARC, a Silicon Valley Icon, Find New Life with SRI?
When Xerox donated the legendary Xerox laboratory to SRI it raised questions about the future of innovation in Silicon Valley
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Two Computer Scientists, Two Visions
Sixty years ago, computing split into two visions of how a then-nascent technology would grow – by seeking to expand the power of the human mind, or working to replace it. While personal computers have since become indispensable, many technologists now believe that new artificial intelligence advances are a potential threat to human existence. But what if the threat is not to our existence, and rather to what it means to be human?
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Silicon Valley Votes Blue
Oped with Lenny Siegel on Silicon Valley
