Producer/Host: Jim Campbell Topic: Thirty-five years ago, Nicholas Sheridan at Xerox PARC came up with Gyricon, a process that presaged the effort to create electronic paper. Ever since, electronic paper has been, according to its promoters, “just around the corner.” Many false starts later, that claim may finally be true today . Here’s a look at [...]

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell Perhaps we need a new bumper sticker these days that asks “What would the Founders say?” Today’s technology places immense power in the hands of government. Even though they could not specifically foresee today’s technologies - like involuntary DNA collection - the Founders and drafters of our Constitution did their best to establish [...]

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell Every spring, the editors of Technology Review list ten important emerging technologies. To see the full list, go to www.technologyreview.com/infotech/20249. To hear some ruminations on two of those technologies, Graphene Transistors and Wireless Power, listen up here.

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell Every now and again a listener will say something like: “The world seems to be changing so fast - all this new technology, and globalization, and climate change and all the rest. What kind of world are our kids going to live in - and more important, what kind of skills will they [...]

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell We all know that there are radio and television waves all around us. And these days, we know there are cell phone waves and wi-fi waves as well. But just how do these waves arrange themselves in the electronic spectrum? Good question - here’s a short review.

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