One of the biggest limitations on the computing power of our spacecraft is shielding them from radiation.

Technophobes are confusing normal neuroplasticity and poor impulse control for black technological magic.

There's a fine line between being an expert trying to simplify a complex topic and an arrogant snob lecturing down to your audience. TED's all-stars are starting to cross that line.

Advanced prosthetics are making an appearance at the Olympics and showing how inhuman form can restore human function.

A popular philosophical objection to life extension is that it would allow terrible people to live longer. The problem is that there will always be terrible people.

People are trying to scan their brains into computers neuron by neuron to continue life as machines.

Xanadu was the ultimate nightmare project for any programmer. And we're lucky it was never completed, much less lived up to its lofty goals.

First, Congress was telling engineers how to build their rockets. Now it's telling programmers how to write their software.

If you're going to network thousands of important devices together, make sure your network is actually secure.

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

There's a cottage industry of techno-utopians out to convince us that their wildest computer-based dreams are right around the corner.

Yes, cyber warfare is real. No, the next attack won't plunge us back into the Stone Age.

Just because you have antivirus doesn't mean your computer is now invulnerable. Far from it in fact.

The flip side of technophobia and lamentations about the dehumanizing effect of gadgets? Trying to force everyone to code and insisting it's a vital skill, like literacy.

Cyber espionage is a lot more effective than an all out attack. So why are we being told to brace for the latter rather than deal with the former?