Technology, he notes, has always mediated our relationship with nature: First came tool making and fire building, then books, binoculars and Gore-Tex. Cameras have long brought the world’s most remote ...

"What automatic translation does for us as humans is really open doors," says one computer scientist with Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute.

Technology doesn’t matter. Why would I say that when my company makes a software solution? Because it doesn’t. No matter how revolutionary or fundamentally brilliant it is or will ever be, the ...

We asked activists, entrepreneurs, historians, and economists how they define this deceptively simple term. What do we mean when we talk about progress? In general terms, to make progress means to ...