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Windows 8 Proves That The Death Of The PC Is Greatly Exaggerated

March 5, 2012Erik Kain

Every now and then we hear rumors of the death of the PC. The rise of the tablet, and especially the iPad, makes these rumors far more common. Take this article in the New York Times, titled “As New iPad Debut Nears, Some See Decline Of PC.” To be fair, it’s a reasonably balanced article, […]

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The Politics Of Biology: Bioprogressives Vs. Bioconservatives

February 22, 2012Erik Kain

Like the future, our biology is inescapable. As advances in technology give us greater control over our own biology, the debate over science and bio-ethics keeps heating up. In a review of Jonathan D. Moreno’s new book, The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America, Ronald Bailey writes: Our biopolitical and bioethical struggles span human concerns from […]

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Can You Imagine Riding In A Self-Driven Car?

February 8, 2012Erik Kain

Imagine driving in a car that does all the work for you – like ‘s Siri voice technology, but at the wheel of the vehicle you’re riding in – your life, in other words, in the palm of a computer’s hand. It’s not science fiction, either. This is technology already being developed. Wired has a […]

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Do E-Books Threaten Democracy?

February 6, 2012Erik Kain

eBooks are on trial once again. This time, they represent nothing short of an existential threat to democracy itself. In the prosecutor’s corner we have novelist Jonathan Franzen, playing the role of ‘bookservative’ and decrying the rise of these anti-democratic digital tomes. “Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I […]

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Why America Needs To Be An Innovation Nation

January 30, 2012Erik Kain

The American people bankroll the federal government’s four biggest spending items to the tune of $2.2 trillion annually. Medicare, Medicaid, Defense, and Social make up over two thirds of the federal budget. By contrast, the slivers of the federal budget that go toward innovation are drops in a very big bucket. “We like to think of […]

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Don’t Expect Apple’s Digital Textbook Innovation To Come From The Top Down

January 26, 2012Erik Kain

announced recently its entrance into the digital textbook market. Dead-tree textbooks, the company claims, are a thing of the past. And, as David Thier notes, is off to a very strong start with its new textbook service – selling over 350,000 textbooks in just three days. Many are enthusiastic about the tech giant’s entrance into […]

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South Park’s ‘A History Channel Thanksgiving’ And The Problems With For-Profit Education

January 7, 2012Erik Kain

South Park lampoons Thor, the History Channel, and for-profit colleges all at once in its latest Thanksgiving special. I’m catching up on the last season of South Park and we watched A History Channel Thanksgiving last night which is a brilliant spoof of several things all at once. It’s most obviously a spoof of the […]

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