SpaceX goes to 11; Orbital delivers the goods

Yesterday was an amazing day in commercial spaceflight. First, in the early morning hours, a robotic Orbital Science Cygnus spacecraft rendezvoused and berthed with the International Space Station. This makes the second operational vehicle to deliver supplies to the...
Rise of the Machines

Rise of the Machines

For a very good overview of the way connected machines will both enhance and bring more risk into our lives, check out “Rise of the Machines,” an hour-long special airing on CNBC Wednesday, September 18th at 9PM ET/PT. I’ve been helping to cover this...

Connecting the rising billion

Last year I reviewed Peter Diamandis’ excellent book Abundance here on the blog. Yesterday I got a chance to plug it again on the website of The Economist, on the Look Ahead blog. One of the more eye-opening concepts in the book is this idea of Rising Billion....