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Innovation is garnering attention in the business media, but like crop storage in a grainery it has no value until somebody buys it. The companies are numerous that have come up with great ideas only to see somebody else turn them into business breakthroughs. Equally numerous are companies that are best described as arid innovation [...]

Executives anxious about bridging the gap between business as usual and exponential advances in science and technology have been given a checklist for their attention. These are the technologies recommended by the experts: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Medicine and Human-Machine Interfaces, Networks & Computing Systems, and Energy & Environmental Systems.
These were [...]

Futurist and scientist/inventor Ray Kurzweil welcomes the new year with predictions of how technology will change humanity by 2020. Solar power on steroids, longer lives, the chance to get rid of obesity once and for all, and portable computing devices that start becoming part of your body rather than being held in your hand are [...]

There is a new word lurking in the arcane language of electronics that may describe a breakthrough in the science of artificial intelligence. It is “memristor”.The more familiar elements of electronic circuits are resistors, capacitors and inductors. An electronics engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, Leon Chua, was convinced there was a fourth missing [...]

When Congress eliminated funding for The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) nineteen years ago it was described as Congress giving itself a lobotomy.  Very few members of Congress are trained in science and consequently avoid the subject.  One Congressman with serious science bona fides is urging that something like the OTA be reinstituted. Representative Rush [...]

Companies hoping to capitalize on future advances in science and technology better learn how to leverage human intellect on multiple continents, according to a Silicon Valley CEO writing in Chief Executive Magazine.  Michael Klayko, CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, a $1.2 billion data networking supplier, points out that R&D employment outside the U.S. by U.S. [...]

A scientist at the University of Akron in Ohio has applied for a patent on an idea that he and his colleagues believe could reduce the destructive power of hurricanes.  The concept involves using jet airplanes to disrupt the complex airflows and other atmospheric activity that produces the power of hurricanes.
Arkadi Leonov says the balance [...]

There are exciting things happening in the field of artificial intelligence.  One promising approach is reverse engineering of the brain in order to emulate biology.
Contrast this technological wonderland with the linear perspective of the driving forces in business and the economy, measurements such as energy costs, commodity prices, and capital investment.
The linear view and the [...]

Recognize that science and technology are advancing at stunning speed and can lead to a bright future for your company, or if ignored can put you out of business
Rethink all aspects of your business with a sense of urgency. Business as usual can very quickly become out of business
Get rid of the all too common [...]

Self healing paint developed at the University of Illinois covers its own scratches with no external intervention, according to a story in the MIT Technology Review. It has the ability to protect cars, bridges, and ships from corrosion.
The self-healing elements, enclosed in mirocapsules that rip open when the coating is scratched, are compatible with a [...]