Broadband and the future of learning
America's schools have gotten wired. Virtually every school and library in the U.S. is now online, thanks in part to the federal E-Rate program, which has been providing subsidies for Internet...
View ArticleThe Net: From cyberspace to everyplace
In Snow Crash, a science fiction novel published in 1992, Neal Stephenson envisioned a future in which people lived in a bleak, grim physical world, but it was possible for them to "jack in" through a...
View ArticleWelcome to the age of pervasive supercomputing
Human beings tend to take incremental change in stride. For example, the loaf of bread that was 50 cents a few decades ago that now costs $3 isn't a big deal to us because the price rose gradually and...
View ArticleCalling Dr. Algorithm
Imagine that almost every household had an inexpensive, easy-to-use, handheld gadget capable of automatically measuring key vital signs (blood pressure, blood oxygen level, heart rate, respiratory...
View ArticleCities get smarter
Cities are unique among man-made institutions in being essentially immortal. A number of cities in Northern Africa and Western Asia are least 5,000 years old, and Jericho, in the West Bank, is believed...
View ArticleNo bandwidth broad enough
Back in the 1970s, at the time of the first "oil shock," when gas prices spiked, researchers at the Institute for the Future conducted a study of what was then being (optimistically) called the...
View ArticleA fresh look at communications regulation
The last time that Congress enacted major telecommunications regulation reform, in 1996, the state of technology was very different than it is today: Fewer than 15% of Americans had a mobile phone,...
View ArticleThe Internet of Growing Things
Earlier this month, in Monterey, Calif., a meeting organized by the Produce Marketing Association provided an opportunity for a group of local growers of crops such as lettuce, artichokes and...
View ArticleTech policy belongs on the 2016 campaign agenda
The next race for the White House is already well under way, with candidates in each party formally announcing their intention to run for the presidency on a regular basis. The issues that will...
View ArticleMeeting the demand for mobile everything
LTE-U could help as an increasing numbers of devices and the things of the IoT compete for spectrum.
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