technology
Two leading voices in tech, Roger McNamee and Farhad Manjoo, give their takes on how Apple and other tech giants are trying to stay creative. Read More...
If today's elementary school kids are going to be the engineers of tomorrow, they need better building blocks. Read More...
Employers are starting to use technology to hire, track and promote employees - in unprecedented ways. Read More...
Media theorist Doug Rushkoff says technology has made us obsessed with the present - and rendered us unable to think deeply about the past or future. Read More...
Get ready to toss your cell phone on a table and come back to a fully-charged device. We look at the house of the future, where electronics will charge wirelessly. 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...
In one of the latest installments of NOVA's "Making Stuff" series, host David Pogue went on a test-drive that was a little out of the ordinary: it didn't involve an actual driver. That's because he was taking a spin in Shelly, a self-driving racecar developed at Stanford which can navigate twists and turns at breakneck speed all on its own.
Now, we turn from Anita Elberse's take on the blockbuster in entertainment to the gadgets that entertain us. David Pogue of WGBH's NOVA spends his time thinking about the race to make phones ever slimmer, their cameras just a bit better, and our watches a little smarter. We chatted about his predictions for the latest and greatest breakthroughs in technology.
Think about those emails you get every minute, the texts constantly vibrating in your pocket, a news cycle that never ends. In his book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff offers up an arresting theory about how living in this brave new world changes us.
