Bitcoin isn't about to crash, but it's very unlikely to scale up to a currency freely used around the world.

Command economies haven't worked with people. Now, some groups want to try it with machines.

Don't worry about most white collar office jobs being replaced by machines. At least not yet...

Bitcoin is supposed to be a whole new way to manage money. But the humans handling it are still the same and falling into old habits with this new currency.

If we accept that internet connectivity in the 21st century is a part of vital infrastructure, the next question is what is the minimum speed we can call acceptable.

Pundits are waking up to the fact that in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the youth of today is being set up for failure.

Administrators are drowning in papers and statistics, but they're still incentivizing scientists to keep producing a tsunami of marginally useful papers.

Could Earth's population be slowly but surely shrinking over the long term?

Today, extreme poverty is not an issue of insufficient resources, but of politics and allocation. And that makes it much harder to address.

The Rhodes Trust is concerned that the financial industry is effectively bribing top notch talent away from politics, science, and technology, and parasitizing our future in the process.

Asteroid mining is touted as the industry of the future. But how ready are we to harvest raw materials from the asteroid belt at a profit?

Peak Oil is a popular idea, but we're nowhere close to reaching it.