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If you read my Predictions for 2012, you'll recall that #6 was “The Corporation” Becomes A Central Societal Question Mark. We aren't very far into the year, and signs of this coming true are all around. The "Occupy" movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning "the corporation as a…

Jaron Lanier's You Are Not A Gadget has been on my reading list for nearly two years, and if nothing else comes of this damn book I'm trying to write, it'll be satisfying to say that I've made my way through any number of important works that for one reason or another, I failed to…

Last month I finished a compelling biography of Samuel Morse: Lightning Man: The Accursed Life Of Samuel F.B. Morse, by Pulitzer-prize winning author Kenneth Silverman. If you're a fan of great biographies, or just want to learn more about the history of both our industry and of the United States during a seminal and innovative period,…

At 71 years old, bestselling author Kevin Kelly has accomplished a lot. He shares the most useful life lessons he wishes he knew earlier, including how much to...

At 71 years old, bestselling author Kevin Kelly has accomplished a lot. He shares the most useful life lessons he wishes he knew earlier, including how much to...

At 71 years old, bestselling author Kevin Kelly has accomplished a lot. He shares the most useful life lessons he wishes he knew earlier, including how much to...

At 71 years old, bestselling author Kevin Kelly has accomplished a lot. He shares the most useful life lessons he wishes he knew earlier, including how much to...

Some proponents of protopian thinking believe that it can lead us to a better future. Others maintain we’re already living in a protopia.

How the wisdom of Homer Simpson can teach us important lessons about progress

/PRNewswire/ -- Kevin Kelly has been famous for his sense of the direction of all things technological since the 1980s. His books on the subject published over...