Impatient Futurist: Your Domestic Robot Servant Has Finally Arrived (in a Fashion)
05.21.2012 All you need is $400,000 and the patience of Job.
by David H. Freedman
Your Personal, Automated Mass Transit Vehicle Is on Its Way
Get out of your car and into your flying train, superclean superbus, and most impressive of all, your personal subway. 04.30.2012
Impatient Futurist: Good News, Spock—We're Getting Closer to a Universal Translator
The rapid advancement of Google-style, statistical translation may help realize this long-time dream. 02.27.2012
Impatient Futurist: Science Finds a Better Way to Teach Science
After doing some much-needed research, cognitive scienctists are suggesting a new way to boost students’ lagging scores: Get rid of the hallowed (and stultifying) classroom lecture. 01.17.2012
The Sperm Crisis: A Tough Nut to Crack
Bad food, bad genes, and monogamy are sucking the life out of human sperm. But conceptive gels and stem cells could bring some virility back. 11.08.2011
How to Achieve Near-Immortality: Wear the Right Clothes
A cobbled-together, $10,000 suit can protect you from radiation, chemicals, bullets, and pretty much any other insult of modern life—including socializing. 10.19.2011
The Bright, Hi-Tech Future of Food Preservation
Irradiating food? Pssh. Old news. Engineers are working on more effective (and cooler) techniques like super-high pressure, chemical coatings, and, yes, laser ovens. 09.02.2011
The Internet May Soon Include All of the Things Around You
As wireless nodes become cheaper and more common, our electronic networks will expand to include many of the non-electronic things you really care about: your missing pants, a new shoelace, and the city’s best produce stand. 08.22.2011
Forget 3D Screens—We Need 3D Audio, Like in Real Life
A backward march of audio quality has left us listening to tinny, stripped-down MP3s. It’s time to show the kids what they are missing. 07.29.2011
Are We Finally Ready for Self-Driving Cars?
Google isn't the only company working on truly automated automobiles. Robot cars will reduce accidents, ease congestion, and keep others from interfering with my excellent driving—especially if we can get the bad drivers into them. 05.23.2011
Future Tech: Looking Forward to the Post-Screen Era
iPads, 3-D TVs, and other slick modern displays would be a lot better if they weren't hemmed in by frames and limited by solidity. 05.02.2011
