Most search engines like Google try to help you find a needle in a haystack. Now, there are new kinds of search engines that scour the “deep web,” the hidden and mostly unexplored region of the web that few ever see, to help you search the haystacks with the most information you are looking for. […]

The phenomenon of serious on-line games, defined as games not just for entertainment but also for improving some aspect of learning is finding its way into almost every aspect of American business and government and has already been shown to be of significant benefit in ramping up skills and communication and a major profit engine […]

We may be on the verge of a significant technological breakthrough, likely to change our lives in many areas. Virtual and augmented reality and the use of videoconferencing is expected to alter daily business functions; […]

From an evolutionary standpoint, choice of mate has to rank high on the list of important life decisions. I thought that most people end up with their life-mate by luck. Science on the matter of attraction and choice of mate suggests that luck only to relate to that pool of individuals from which we choose […]

Since almost all of June has been rainy, I decided to begin reading more novels to remind me that we are in summer. I am almost finished with ENDER’S GAME by Orson Scott Card, a fascinating account of a boy drafted into the earth’s future military force to lead a final war against alien invaders. […]

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal reported a disturbing story on it’s front page about how the Iranian government is not just blocking web access, it is engaged in “deep-packet inspection” of it’s citizens computers using technology developed by Siemans, AG and Nokia. Deep-Packet inspection is a form of data-mining in which equipment is installed to examine […]

A 2007 article in Good Magazine written by Michael A.M. Lerner summarized some of the work of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita in mathematically predicting “virtually any international conflict, provided the basic inputs are accurate.” Bueno de Mesquita can also be seen on You Tube giving lectures and his work raise important but thorny issues on […]

Let me tell you how I came to be curious about the issue of model simulations and predictive analysis. First, I am not a statistician. By day, I am an internet media lawyer in a mid-sized law firm in the heart of Boston . Up until now, all the statistics I know came from one […]

  This is my first blog about the future. Yesterday, I went to see Star Trek and although my expectations were tempered from prior Star Trek films, I came away thinking that this one had a lot to it and a lot that is relevant to this particular point in human history, where all that is past and […]