Stan J. Liebowitz and Alejandro Zentner (UT-Dallas): The Internet as a Celestial TiVo. A. Michael Froomkin (Miami): Lessons Learned Too Well. From Triple C: Cognition, Communication, Co-operation, a special issue on a New Science of Information. From Popular Science, a special series on The Data Age, including an interview with Stephen Wolfram on the power and challenge of Big Data. More than just digital quilting: The “maker” movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation — it may even herald a new industrial revolution. Keith Devlin on the first personal computing revolution. Information explosion: Lee Hutchinson on how rapidly expanding storage spurs innovation. The first chapter from Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction by Paul J. Nahin. Marc Andreessen on why software is eating the world. Michael Raymond del Castillo is writing profiles about this group of entrepreneurs who are looking to change the world through accelerating technology team projects, including Matternet and Primerlife. Trendspotting: Darrel Ince on the future of the computer. Tech is invented globally but adopted one country at a time: Few countries will be able to embrace 16 emerging technologies this decade. A review of Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work by Anne Balsamo. A review of The Techno-Human Condition by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz. Robert Evans on 5 tiny computer glitches that caused huge disasters. Does technology evolve? Ryan Kapsar investigates (and part 2). Who controls the Internet and mobile technology? Matthew C. Nisbet on the hidden forces that define our choices. A look at the 5 most mind-blowingly huge machines built by science.
