On may 5th Dave Elchoness will take a look at the major information and technological revolution that lies ahead
In a wide ranging keynote address at the 2007 Influence Forum, ICANN CEO Paul Twomey made the bold statement that virtual worlds are the future of global commerce.
Twomey sited several examples of the virtual [...]

 
Philanthropy just got easier and a lot more accessible to the public thanks to the social networking power of the Internet and a ground-breaking partnership between a young British entrepreneur, a global health think tank and an African medical research institute.

 
More women are taking vacations together and leaving the guys behind
Girlfriends’ getaways – where women travel with other women and leave the menfolk home – are booming. And the phenomenon is not just about bachelorette parties or 20-somethings on spring break.
Women are taking knitting trips, adventure [...]

 
For those people who just can’t wait for breakfast
Sure, Wilson, there is plenty of information out there today on flat toasters, but what about mattresses that look like toast?
 

 
How will the world look in the year 2058?
Sixty thinkers from around the world rise to that challenge in a collection of essays titled “The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today.”
The consensus view is that we’ll muddle through many of the issues that vex us today — including climate change and terror threats. [...]

 
Threading long DNA molecules through nano-sized channels on a specially
fabricated chip could provide a cheaper way to sequence DNA.
It currently costs roughly $60,000 to sequence a human genome, and a handful of research groups are hoping to achieve a $1,000 genome within the next three years. But two companies, Complete Genomics and BioNanomatrix, are collaborating [...]

This is what happens in the background when you connect through your ISP
 Perhaps you have been curious how all of those connection sounds came about when connecting to the Internet.  We’ll, here’s how it is done. Second video after the jump.
 

 
To keep ski tourism alive, many resorts are using artificial snow produced by snow cannons.
Artificial snow may help Alpine ski resorts to fight the effects of climate change, but it also creates environmental problems of its own. Is summer tourism the only thing that can save the struggling resorts?
 

Wimax, dongle and mashup. They might be unintelligible to technophobes, but they are just some examples of the colourful vocabulary of Europe’s fastest-growing language: Nerdic.
Some call it “geek speak”, others use the term “nerdic”. Indeed, Pixmania, one of Europe’s largest electronic internet retailers, said on Friday that nerdic is Europe’s “fastest growing dialect”. It claims [...]

AT&T claims that the Internet’s bandwidth will be saturated by video-on-demand and such by 2010.
U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet’s current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010.