Eric Dishman, Intel's health visionary (and the protagonist of my "patient" chapter in the Numerati), delivered this talk at Ted in late '09. His point is that…

I love baseball, and I defend it stoutly against all those who complain that it's boring. But anyone who can sit through a Yankees-Red Sox game without…

Is it worth more to save a person from a terrorist's bomb than, say, a car crash? John Mueller and Mark Stewart grapple with the spending choices…

I think I should have been more emphatic in The Numerati. From the 2020s on, practically every senior in the industrial world will be monitored by sensors…

"It’s hard to imagine that we’ll ever see another 15 years of blockbuster, culture-changing hits like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad — from Apple or anyone…

It was long my goal to make "numerati" a common word. Most of us don't get too many chances in life to create a new word, and…

An exercise for you. Look around wherever you are (and away from this screen) and carry out an inventory. What do you see that people wouldn't have…

The first circle I filled on Google+ was easy. Family. I dragged and dropped different family members into the circle, and I guess some day I could…

If you and I talk on our cell phones, we're actually not speaking with each other, but with each other's avatar. The real you is where your…

One day last month, a dazzling sunny day in Paris, I faced a choice: Do I spend my last afternoon in a crowded tent listening to Facebook's…