On March 24th, futurist Thomas Frey will be presenting a talk on "Driving Forces for 2006" at the upcoming Movers & Shakers Breakfast at Phipps Mansion in Denver, Colorado.

A
recent Comcast television commercial for its broadband services shows
two turtles discussing the attributes of dial-up. These creatures may
soon be the only non-broadband users left.

Woman in the Chinese military
We’ve all seen what women look like when they are angry.  Well, add a military uniform, give them a weapon or two, make them look Chinese, and look out.  These are not your grandfather’s soldiers.  The following are some amazing photos that tell a very different story of the modern Chinese military.

Scientists at the Pentagon are working to develop an army of cyber-insects that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and send transmissions.

These are very cool. These amazing photos are of art scultures made entirely of eggs.

A Hungarian hairdresser has ditched the traditional scissors and comb in favor of axes, swords and vacuum cleaners.

Rich Karlgaard:  Today it costs $175,000 to send your kid to my alma mater. Yep–that’s the market price for four years of tuition and expenses at any elite private college. Did I say elite? Sorry. The second- and third-tier private colleges have also learned this economics game. They, too, are charging north of $100,000 for [...]

Scientists have invented the Cyberhand, a brain-controlled robotoic hand with fingers that can actually feel.  Cool photos.

Modern medicine is redefining old age and may soon allow people to live regularly beyond the current upper limit of 120 years, experts said on Wednesday.

On Wednesday Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates trash talked the $100 laptop computer for developing countries being developed with the backing of rival Google at MIT.

"I suppose it sounds bizarre as it’s not every day you wake up and say to your husband, ‘Let’s be snail farmers’,"

Thomas Sowell:  Government is not the only institution that promises something for nothing. The decline of General Motors is just one consequence of the idea that labor unions can get their members something for nothing.