Vivek Wadhwa of Singularity University returns to Big Think today as part of today’s featured video interview. The topic is disruption: the phenomenon that occurs when radical innovati... Read more
Brain implants, viruses that wipe out cancer, and smartphones that sense Alzheimers Predicting the future of health care is a tricky business. At any point, there could be a big breakthrough... Read more
What do elementary pedagogy and artificial intelligence have in common? Leaders in both fields have abandoned the study of the trees for that of the forest. From preschool through high schoo... Read more
Networking: Enthusiasts dream of building a drone-powered internet to carry objects rather than data. Are they mad? THE spread of mobile phones in developing countries in the past decade has... Read more
Modern Meadow–a lab-grown meat startup–is getting closer and closer to growing leather in a test tube. But that’s just the beginning. Why grow regular leather when you can use yo... Read more
The data could provide a wealth of information for a doctor to form an accurate diagnosis much faster With the way technology is heading, it’s a certainty that we’ll have a gadge... Read more
Where Matternet is going, it doesn’t need roads. But the people there need food and medicine. And these drones can bring it to them. Nearly one billion people in rural areas live without acc... Read more
How far can the sharing economy go? As technology lets us share more and more items with greater and greater convenience, how far can the sharing economy go? In 2009, I was a student... Read more
The Matternet is a proposed internet-like network, that would allow goods such as medicine to be transported to remote communities via unmanned aerial vehicles Across Africa, along with othe... Read more
ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course... Read more