Sci and Tech
Think you can multitask? Think again. Hear our conversation with author Nicholas Carr and the late Stanford professor Clifford Nass, who argue that the Internet and smartphones are reprogramming our brains and shrinking our attention spans. Read more...
Is technology distracting us from the real relationships in our lives? We talk with Sherry Turkle, professor at MIT and author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other. Read more...
An email pops up in your mailbox: do you open it? BJ Fogg of Stanford University's Persuasive Technology Lab is an expert in getting technology to influence our behavior. Read more...
J. Craig Venter, author of "Life at the Speed of Light," went from surfer dude to one of the first scientists to sequence the human genome. Now he's working on changing our biology. Read more...
Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, says if you think Internet censorship isn’t a big deal, think again. Read more...
Debora Spar, president of Barnard College and author of Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection, asks: what's keeping so many women out of the innovation economy? Read more...
The holiday season is upon us! Gadget guru Ben Saren shares some of favorite gift ideas. Read more...
Does the rise of technology signal the end of "big?" Nicco Mele, author of "The End of Big," says "big" institutions - from big politics to big media – better start worrying. Read more…
One journalist argues that Americans haven't cornered the market on creativity. And that China is hot on our heels. Should we be concerned? Read more...
