Speaking before a packed lecture theater at MIT earlier this week, Neal Stephenson worried that the gloomy outlook prevalent in modern science fiction may be undermining...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 19, 2012
When the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under 2 spend exactly zero time in front of screens, what its members are concerned about is substitution—all...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 29, 2012
2011 saw the personal computer continue to be marginalized. Although PCs are still the workhorse computing device in homes and offices, the most exciting innovations...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 29, 2011
We've been living in the age of social media for a long time, but 2011 was the year that all the information we share online began to accrete into something greater...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 28, 2011
A little more than a year ago, Microsoft veteran Stephen Elop agreed to become CEO of Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile handsets. Elop's job at the Finnish...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 19, 2011
Amid widespread concern over an obscure piece of smart-phone diagnostic software that some experts say could be used to collect and transmit sensitive information...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2011
What if Facebook paid you? Several startups envision an era in which we are all the brokers, and beneficiaries, of our own personal data.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 30, 2011
When the original Xbox video-game console went on sale in 2001, it wasn't clear why Microsoft, known for staid workplace software, was branching out into fast...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 3, 2011
Although Paul Allen paraphrases my 2005 book, The Singularity Is Near, in the title of his essay (cowritten with his colleague Mark Greaves), it appears that he...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 20, 2011
Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 14, 2011
In 2007, Ramesh Raskar was one of the most promising young researchers at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in Cambridge, Mass. Four years earlier, Technology...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 4, 2011
A conversation with Nicholas Felton shows how Facebook's new apps will uncover uncomfortable truths about users—and how the same data could enable entirely new...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 27, 2011
If anyone can preview the future of computing, it should be Alfred Spector, Google's director of research. Spector's team focuses on the most challenging areas...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 22, 2011
Online services set content free from the physical world's constraints—including those that have defined the very idea of possession.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 8, 2011
The bitcoin, a virtual medium of exchange, could be a real alternative to government-issued money—but only if it survives hoarding by speculators.Technology Review From ACM News | September 6, 2011
Inside the headquarters of networking giant Cisco in San Jose, California, lies a technology showcase where executives can test out advanced technologies like...Technology Review From ACM News | August 26, 2011
America isn't innovating like it used to. And by "like it used to," I mean the period from after World War II to 1973, when an explosion of new technologies increased...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 9, 2011